Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness

Conservation Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 364-375

  Tukiainen, Helena ^a   Bailey, Joseph J ^b   Field, Richard ^b   Kangas, Katja ^a   Hjort, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biodiversidad; biodiversity; conservaci n del estado de la naturaleza; conserving nature's stage; geology; geolog a; geomorfolog a; geomorphology; heterogeneidad; heterogeneity; hidrolog a; hydrology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEODIVERSITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FINLAND;

BRYOPHYTES; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FINLAND; MAMMAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FINLAND; MAMMALS;

EID: 85002396872     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12799     Document Type: Article

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