National red listing beyond the 2010 target

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1012-1020

  Zamin, Tara J ^a,f   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^b   Miller, Rebecca M ^c   Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^c,d   Ardid, Ana ^e   Collen, Ben ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^d Provita   (Venezuela)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

2010 biodiversity target; Biodiversity indicators; Conservation priorities; Convention on Biological Diversity; Gap analysis; Millennium Development Goals; National red lists; Regional red lists; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; NATIONAL STRATEGY; NATURE CONSERVATION; RED LIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AFRICA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954696726     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01492.x     Document Type: Article

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