The challenge of measuring global change in wild nature: Are things getting better or worse?

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-23

  Jenkins, Martin ^a   Green, Rhys E ^b   Madden, Joah ^c  

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 0037324290     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01719.x     Document Type: Article

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