Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1864-1869

  Clausnitzer, Viola ^a   Kalkman, Vincent J ^b   Ram, Mala ^c   Collen, Ben ^c   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^c   Bedjanič, Matjaž ^d   Darwall, William R T ^e   Dijkstra, Klaas Douwe B ^b   Dow, Rory ^d   Hawking, John ^f   Karube, Haruki ^g   Malikova, Elena ^h   Paulson, Dennis ⁱ   Schütte, Kai ^j   Suhling, Frank ^k   Villanueva, Reagan J ^l   von Ellenrieder, Natalia ^m   Wilson, Keith ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d IUCN Species Programme ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e IUCN Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^f MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^g KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Japan)

^h BLAGOVESHCHENSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^l ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^m UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Conservation status; Freshwater (health environment); Global assessment; IUCN; Odonata; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION STATUS; DAMSELFLY; DRAGONFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT TYPE; RED LIST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ODONATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349161468     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.028     Document Type: Article

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