Key biodiversity areas as site conservation targets

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1110-1118

  Eken, Güven ^a,b   Bennun, Leon ^c   Brooks, Thomas M ^d   Darwall, Will ^e   Fishpool, Lincoln D C ^c   Foster, Matt ^d   Knox, David ^d   Langhammer, Penny ^d   Matiku, Paul ^f   Radford, Elizabeth ^g   Salaman, Paul ^h   Sechrest, Wes ⁱ   Smith, Michael L ^d   Spector, Sacha ^j   Tordoff, Andrew ^k  

^a BirdLife International   (Netherlands)

^b Conservation International ^*  (Turkey)

^c BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

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

^e IUCN Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^f Nature Kenya   (Kenya)

^g Plantlife Scotland   (United Kingdom)

^h CABS   (Colombia)

ⁱ IUCN SSC/CI CABS Biodiv Assess U   (United States)

^j DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^k BirdLife International Asia Division   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Gap analysis; Irreplaceability; Protected areas; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944365178     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[1110:KBAASC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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