On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Keil, Petr ^a,b   Storch, David ^b   Jetz, Walter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXTINCTION; GENETIC RESOURCE; HABITAT LOSS; NATURE CONSERVATION; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

BIODIVERSITY; DESTRUCTION; GEOMETRY; PREDICTION; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84947802598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9837     Document Type: Article

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