Rare Habitats Vie for Protection

Summary

A new approach to protecting biodiversity targets beleaguered habitat types, even if they don't house extraordinary numbers of species, because this approach gives more weight to areas outside the tropics and organisms other than plants.

Keywords

Habitat, Biodiversity, Tropics, Geography, Ecology

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