Coverage provided by the global protected-area system: Is it enough?

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1081-1091

  Brooks, Thomas M ^a   Bakarr, Mohamed I ^c,d   Boucher, Tim ^e   Da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^a,b   Hilton Taylor, Craig ^f   Hoekstra, Jonathan M ^e   Moritz, Tom ^g   Olivieri, Silvio ^a   Parrish, Jeff ^e   Pressey, Robert L ^h   Rodrigues, Ana S L ^a   Sechrest, Wes ⁱ   Stattersfield, Ali ^j   Strahm, Wendy ^k   Stuart, Simon N ⁱ  

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

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c CABS CI ^*

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^e THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^f IUCN Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^h Policy and Science Division   (Australia)

ⁱ IUCN/SSC CI/CABS Biodiversity Assessment Initiative   (United States)

^j BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^k IUCN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Gap analysis; Protected areas; World Parks Congress

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 19944378059     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[1081:CPBTGP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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