Correlations among extinction risks assessed by different systems of threatened species categorization

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1624-1635

  O'Grady, Julian J ^a   Burgman, Mark A ^b   Keith, David A ^c   Master, Lawrence L ^d   Andelman, Sandy J ^e   Brook, Barry W ^f   Hammerson, Geoffrey A ^d   Regan, Tracey ^b   Frankham, Richard ^a,g,h  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^d NatureServe   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^f CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered species; Extinction risk; Population viability analysis; Threat rankings

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; MAMMAL; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644246122     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00109.x     Document Type: Article

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