Plant Red Data List assessments in southern Africa: Financial costs of a collaborative regional project

Taxon

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1051-1055

  Siebert, Stefan J ^a   Smith, Gideon F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity conservation; Herbaria; IUCN; Red Data Lists; SABONET; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; COST; RED LIST;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 32344446069     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25065492     Document Type: Article

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