Research effort allocation and the conservation of restricted-range island bird species

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 627-632

  De Lima, Ricardo F ^a   Bird, Jeremy P ^b   Barlow, Jos ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BirdLife International Pacific Secretariat   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Conservation prioritization; Endemic bird areas; ISI's Web of Knowledge; IUCN Red List; Research biases

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISLAND; RED LIST; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 78751573016     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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