Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates

Analysis of vertebrate’s phylogenetic endemism highlights that unique regions of conservation concern face several threats.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Science Advances

• Publication date

  2021-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/sciadv.abe5582PMID 34644103PMCID 8514094
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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