Data gaps in anthropogenically driven local-scale species richness change studies across the Earth's terrestrial biomes

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2938-2947

  Murphy, Grace E P ^a   Romanuk, Tamara N ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomes; Data gaps; Global change; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961642289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2004     Document Type: Article

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