China's progress toward the significant reduction of the rate of biodiversity loss

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 843-852

  Xu, Haigen ^a   Tang, Xiaoping ^b   Liu, Jiyuan ^c   Ding, Hui ^d   Wu, Jun ^d   Zhang, Ming ^d   Yang, Qingwen ^e   Cai, Lei ^a   Zhao, Haijun ^a   Liu, Yan ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b State Academy of Forestry Administration   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d NIES ^*  (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

2010 target; Biodiversity; Invasive alien species; Marine trophic index; Red List index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649204915     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.10.6     Document Type: Article

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