Monitoring biodiversity loss with primary species-occurrence data: Toward national-level indicators for the 2010 target of the convention on biological diversity

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Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-34

  Soberón, Jorge ^a   Townsend Peterson, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 61449122056     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.1.29     Document Type: Review

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71. First submitted 7 August 2007. Accepted for publication 4 May 2008.