What does it mean to successfully conserve a (vertebrate) species?

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-48

  Redford, Kent H ^a   Amato, George ^a   Baillie, Jonathan ^b   Beldomenico, Pablo ^a   Bennett, Elizabeth L ^a   Clum, Nancy ^a   Cook, Robert ^a   Fonseca, Gustavo ^c   Hedges, Simon ^a   Launay, Frederic ^d   Lieberman, Susan ^e   MacE, Georgina M ^f   Murayama, Akira ^f   Putnam, Andrea ^g   Robinson, John G ^a   Rosenbaum, Howard ^a   Sanderson, Eric W ^a   Stuart, Simon N ^h   Thomas, Patrick ^a   Thorbjarnarson, John ⁱ  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Zoological Society of   (United Kingdom)

^c Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^d Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort ^*  (United Arab Emirates)

^e Pew Environment Group   (Australia)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Species Survival Commission/International Union for Conservation of Nature   (United States)

ⁱ WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

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EID: 79751512225     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.1.9     Document Type: Article

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