Rates of movement of threatened bird species between IUCN Red List categories and toward extinction

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 417-427

  Brooke, M De L ^a   Butchart, S H M ^b   Garnett, S T ^c   Crowley, G M ^c   Mantilla Beniers, N B ^a,d   Stattersfield, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Australian birds; Conservation impact; Extinction rate; IUCN Red List criteria; Threat category

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RED LIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 41849122647     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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