Using the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation to guide conservation implementation in the UK Overseas Territories

Kew Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 509-517

  Clubbe, Colin ^a   Hamilton, Martin ^a   Corcoran, Marcella ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conservation assessments; GSPC; important plant areas; red listing; threatened species; UKOTs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957487396     PISSN: 00755974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12225-011-9247-2     Document Type: Article

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