Projecting global land use-driven evolutionary history loss

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 158-167

  Chaudhary, Abhishek ^a   Pourfaraj, Vahab ^b   Mooers, Arne O ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

biodiversity; evolutionary history; habitat loss; land use; phylogenetic diversity; species extinctions

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE; PHYLOGENETICS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBANIZATION;

COLOMBIA; INDIA; INDONESIA; MADAGASCAR; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHILIPPINES;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 85034746720     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12677     Document Type: Article

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