Antarctic biogeography revisited: updating the Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 836-840

  Terauds, Aleks ^a   Lee, Jasmine R ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic biodiversity; Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions; biogeographical zones; conservation planning; multivariate analyses; spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATABASE; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84977632606     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12453     Document Type: Article

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