Informing and influencing the interface between biodiversity science and biodiversity policy in South Africa

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-309

  Crouch, Neil R ^a,b   Smith, Gideon F ^a,c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; ADVOCACY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INVERTEBRATE; NATURAL RESOURCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLICY ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PERSONNEL; PLANT; POLICY; SOUTH AFRICA;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PLANTS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

INVERTEBRATA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959549701     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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