Evaluación de la biodiversidad y estrategias de conservación

van Jaarsveld AS1, Freitag, Chown

  • 1A. S. van Jaarsveld, S. Freitag, S. L. Chown, C. Muller, S. Kock, H. Hull, C. H. Scholtz, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. C. Bellamy, M. Kruger, S. Endrody-Younga, Transvaal Museum,

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 8, 1998
PubMed
Resumen

La planificación de la conservación enfrenta desafíos que representan a todas las especies. El uso de especies o taxones superiores como sustitutos para la representación de la biodiversidad en las redes mostró poca superposición, lo que cuestiona los supuestos comunes de planificación de la conservación.

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