Application to the terrestrial vertebrates of Italy of a system proposed by IUCN for a new classification of national Red List categories

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 959-978

  Pinchera, Francesco ^a   Boitani, Luigi ^a   Corsi, Fabio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Istituto Ecologia Applicata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global conservation priorities in national distributions; Italian terrestrial vertebrates Red List; National classification of exinction risk; Red List categories application criteria

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; RED DATA LIST;

ITALY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030838954     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018363530014     Document Type: Article

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