Increasing geographic diversity in the international conservation literature: A stalled process?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 198, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-83

  Mammides, Christos ^a   Goodale, Uromi M ^b   Corlett, Richard T ^a   Chen, Jin ^a   Bawa, Kamaljit S ^c,d   Hariya, Hetal ^d   Jarrad, Frith ^e   Primack, Richard B ^f   Ewing, Harry ^a   Xia, Xue ^b   Goodale, Eben ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation education; Conservation funding; Institutional capacity; Peer review process; Publication trends; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963610925     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.030     Document Type: Note

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