A comparison of North American avian conservation priority ranking systems

Biological Conservation

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 383-390

  Mehlman, David W ^a   Rosenberg, Kenneth V ^b   Wells, Jeffrey V ^c   Robertson, Bruce ^c  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Conservation prioritization; IUCN; NatureServe; Partners in Flight

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; RANKING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 4143114834     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

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