Developing indicators for European birds

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1454, 2005, Pages 269-288

  Gregory, Richard D ^a   Van Strien, Arco ^b   Vorisek, Petr ^c   Meyling, Adriaan W Gmelig ^b   Noble, David G ^d   Foppen, Ruud P B ^e   Gibbons, David W ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c Czech Society for Ornithology   (Czech Republic)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^e SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity targets; European birds; Indicators; Policy relevance; Population trends; Summary statistics

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18344386812     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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