The need to rationalize and prioritize threatening processes used to determine threat status in the IUCN red list

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1568-1576

  Hayward, Matt W ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Competition; Conservation status; Threatening processes

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CIVIL WAR; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MAMMAL; RED LIST; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARTIODACTYLA; BISON BONASUS; BOVINAE; CARNIVORA; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO; PRIMATES;

EID: 70450250199     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01260.x     Document Type: Article

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