Tracking progress toward the 2010 biodiversity target and beyond

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5947, 2009, Pages 1503-1504

  Walpole, Matt ^a   Almond, Rosamunde E A ^a   Besançon, Charles ^a   Butchart, Stuart H M ^b   Campbell Lendrum, Diarmid ^c   Carr, Geneviève M ^d,e   Collen, Ben ^f   Collette, Linda ^g   Davidson, Nick C ^h   Dulloo, Ehsan ⁱ   Fazel, Asghar M ^a   Galloway, James N ^j   Gill, Michael ^k   Goverse, Tessa ^l   Hockings, Marc ^m   Leaman, Danna J ⁿ   Morgan, David H W ^o   Revenga, Carmen ^p   Rickwood, Carrie J ^e,q   Schutyser, Frederik ^r   Simons, Sarah ^s   Stattersfield, Alison J ^b   Tyrrell, Tristan D ^a   Vié, Jean Christophe ^t   Zimsky, Mark ^l   more..

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Government of Canada   (Canada)

^e Global Environment Monitoring System Water   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^h Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

ⁱ BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^l Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁿ Medicinal Plant Specialist Group   (Canada)

^o Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Secretariat ^*  (United States)

^p THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^q NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^r European Environment Agency   (Denmark)

^s Global Invasive Species Programme   (South Africa)

^t IUCN

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INVESTMENT; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; TIME SERIES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CHANGE; INDICATOR ORGANISM; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT SURVEY; SYNECOLOGY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 70349349145     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175466     Document Type: Short Survey

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