Using Red List Indices to measure progress towards the 2010 target and beyond

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1454, 2005, Pages 255-268

  Butchart, S H M ^a   Stattersfield, A J ^a   Baillie, J ^b   Bennun, L A ^a   Stuart, S N ^c   Akcakaya H R ^d   Hilton Taylor, C ^e   Mace, G M ^b  

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^d APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^e IUCN Red List Programme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Birds; Extinction risk; Indicators; IUCN Red List; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION RISK; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; RED LIST;

AMPHIBIA; AVES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 18344390435     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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