Species richness as criterion for global conservation area placement leads to large losses in coverage of biodiversity

To quantify and compare species coverage in priority areas for conservation identified using species richness as opposed to approaches that use individual species range maps.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.12571
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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