Ranking threats using species distribution models in the IUCN Red List assessment process

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3689-3692

  Cassini, Marcelo H ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Population viability analysis; Specialist groups; Threat assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RED LIST; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 81555198419     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0126-9     Document Type: Article

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