From Continental Priorities to Local Conservation: A Multi-Level Analysis for African Tortoises
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From Continental Priorities to Local Conservation: A Multi-Level Analysis for African Tortoises
Terrestrial tortoises are the most endangered group of vertebrates but they are still largely ignored for defining global conservation priorities. In this paper, we explored within a hierarchical framework the potential contribution of prioritization studies at the continental scale to the planning of local initiatives for the conservation of African tortoises at the regional level. First, we m...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077093