Implications of Goodhart's Law for monitoring global biodiversity loss

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 264-268

  Newton, Adrian C ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2010 target; Extinction risk; Indicator; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List; Red List Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053206965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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