Assessing the status of poorly known species: Lessons from partridges and pheasants of Southeast Asia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  McGowan, Philip ^a   Gillman, Michael ^a   Dodd, Michael ^a  

^a Ecoscope Applied Ecologists   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation evaluation; Phasianidae; Southeast Asia; Status assessment; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; PARTRIDGE; PHEASANT;

ASIA, (SOUTHEAST);

PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0031986325     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00035-9     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Collins, N. M., Sayer, J. A. and Whitmore, T. C. (eds) (1991) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. Macmillan Press, London.
2. Davison, G. W. H. and Scriven, K. (1987) Recent pheasant surveys in Peninsular Malaysia. In Pheasants in Asia 1982, eds C. D. W. Savage and M. W. Ridley, pp. 90-101. World Pheasant Association, Reading, UK.
3. Delacour, J. (1977) The Pheasants of the World, 2nd edition. Spur Publications, Hindhead, UK.
4. Gaston, K. J. (1991) How large is a species' range? Oikos 61, 434-437.
5. Gaston, K. J. (1994) Measuring geographic range sizes. Ecography 17, 198-205.
6. Johnsgard, P. A. (1986) The Phesants of the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
7. Johnsgard, P. A. (1988) The Quails, Partridges and Francolins of the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
8. Mace, G. M. and Lande, R. (1991) Assessing extinction threats: towards a reevaluation of IUCN threatened species categories. Conserv. Biol. 5, 148-157.
9. MapInfo Corporation (1995) MapInfo v3·0.5. MapInfo Corporation, Troy, New York.
10. Margules, C. R. (1989) Introduction to some Australian developments in conservation evaluation. Biol. Conserv. 50, 1-11.
11. Maurer, B. A. (1994) Geographical Population Analysis. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
12. McGowan, P. J. K. (1994) Display dispersion and microhabitat use by the Malaysian peacock pheasant Polyplectron malacense in Peninsular Malaysia. J. Trop. Ecol. 10, 229-244.
13. McGowan, P. J. K. and Garson, P. J. (1995) Pheasants: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan 1995-1999. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
14. McGowan, P. J. K., Dowell, S. D., Carroll, J. P. and Aebischer, N. J. (1995) Partridges, Quails, Francolins, Snowcocks and Guineafowl: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan 1995-1999. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
15. McGowan, P. and Gillman, M. (in press) Assessment of the status of partridges and pheasants in Southeast Asia. Biodivers. Conserv.
16. Miller, R. I. (1994) Mapping the Diversity of Nature. Chapman and Hall, London.
17. Smythies, B. C. (1957) An annotated checklist of the birds of Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal Series 7, 9, pp. 523-818.
18. Species Survival Commission (1994) IUCN Red List Categories. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
19. van Balen, B. and Holmes, D. A. (1993) Status and conservation of pheasants in the Greater and Lesser Sundas, Indonesia. In Pheasants in Asia 1992, ed. D. Jenkins, pp. 40-49. World Pheasant Association, Reading, UK.
20. van Marle, J. G. and Voous, K. H. (1988) The Birds of Sumatra. British Ornithologists' Union, Tring, UK.
21. Wells, D. R. (1985) The forest avifauna of western Malesia and its conservation. In Conservation of Tropical Forest Birds, eds. A. W. Diamond and T. E. Lovejoy, pp. 213-232. International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, UK.
22. Whitmore, T. C. (1988) Forest types and forest zonation. In Key Environments: Malaysia, ed. Earl of Cranbrook, pp. 20-30. Pergamon Press, Oxford.