Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: Strengths of the IUCN red list index

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 579-581

  Butchart, Stuart H M ^a   Akcakaya, H Resit ^b   Kennedy, Elizabeth ^c   Hilton Taylor, Craig ^d  

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

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

^d IUCN Species Programmme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33645107565     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00410.x     Document Type: Note

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