Habitats Directive species lists: Urgent need of revision

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-174

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Conservation priority; Endangered species lists; Environmental policy; European Union; Insects; LIFE programme; Red lists; Spiders

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155161379     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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