The treatment of uncertainty and the structure of the IUCN threatened species categories

Biological Conservation

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-249

  Colyvan, Mark ^a   Burgman, Mark A ^b   Todd, Charles R ^b   Resit Akcakaya H ^c   Boek, Chris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^d Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation status; Endangered; Extinct; IUCN criteria; Threat; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0032895131     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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