Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems;Establecimiento de Criterios para la Lista Roja de UICN de Ecosistemas Amenazados

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-29

  Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^a,b   Rodríguez Clark, Kathryn M ^a   Baillie, Jonathan E M ^c   Ash, Neville ^d   Benson, John ^e   Boucher, Timothy ^f   Brown, Claire ^g   Burgess, Neil D ^h,n,q   Collen, Ben ^c   Jennings, Michael ^i,r   Keith, David A ^j   Nicholson, Emily ^k   Revenga, Carmen ^f   Reyers, Belinda ^l   Rouget, Mathieu ^m   Smith, Tammy ^m   Spalding, Mark ⁿ   Taber, Andrew ^o   Walpole, Matt ^g   Zager, Irene ^b   Zamin, Tara ^p   more..

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b Provita   (Venezuela)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IUCN   (Switzerland)

^e ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^f THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

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

^h WWF US ^*  (United States)

ⁱ Department of Geography ^*  (United States)

^j NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^k IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^m SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^o CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^p QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^r UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ecosystem threat status; Endangered ecosystems; IUCN categories and criteria; IUCN Red List; Threatened ecosystems

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RED LIST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78751676091     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01598.x     Document Type: Article

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