News Headline
New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection
Source
EurekAlert
Publication Date
2012-01-27
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collected over the last 100 years by explorers and from satellite images which reveals detailed patterns of species and ecosystems that occur only in this region.
Content
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bc-nbm012512.php