A snapshot of biodiversity protection in Antarctica

Hannah S. Wauchope; Justine D. Shaw; Aleks Terauds

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08915-6

Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

A snapshot of biodiversity protection in Antarctica

Hannah S. Wauchope,
Justine D. Shaw,
Aleks Terauds

Affiliations

Hannah S. Wauchope: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Justine D. Shaw: School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
Aleks Terauds: Antarctic Conservation and Management Program, Australian Antarctic Division

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08915-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Antarctic biodiversity is increasingly under threat. Here, Wauchope et al. provide a continent-wide assessment of its terrestrial biodiversity, and find biodiversity protection is regionally uneven and biased towards easily detectable and charismatic species.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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