An Optimality Criterion to Determine Areas of Endemism
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An optimality criterion to determine areas of endemism.
A formal method was developed to determine areas of endemism. The study region is divided into cells, and the number of species that can be considered as endemic is counted for a given set of cells (= area). Thus, the areas with the maximum number of species considered endemic are preferred. This is the first method for the identification of areas of endemism that implements an optimality crite...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102483