Monitoring change in vertebrate abundance: The living planet index;Monitoreo del cambio en la abundancia de vertebrados: El 'Indice del planeta viviente

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-327

  Collen, Ben ^a   Loh, Jonathan ^a,b   Whitmee, Sarah ^a   McRae, Louise ^a   Amin, Rajan ^c   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WWF INTERNATIONAL   (Switzerland)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2010 target; Biodiversity decline; Convention on Biological Diversity; Living Planet Index; Population time series; Species abundance; Threat indicators

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE INDEX; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION DECLINE; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 62549104185     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01117.x     Document Type: Article

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