Protecting important sites for biodiversity contributes to meeting global conservation targets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Butchart, Stuart H M ^a,b   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^b   Evans, Mike I ^a   Quader, Suhel ^c,ad   Aricò, Salvatore ^d   Arinaitwe, Julius ^e   Balman, Mark ^a   Bennun, Leon A ^a   Bertzky, Bastian ^b   Besançon, Charles ^b   Boucher, Timothy M ^f   Brooks, Thomas M ^g,h,i   Burfield, Ian J ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^j,k   Chan, Simba ^l   Clay, Rob P ^m   Crosby, Mike J ^a   Davidson, Nicholas C ⁿ   de Silva, Naamal ^o   Devenish, Christian ^m,ae   Dutson, Guy C L ^p   Fernández, David F Díaz ^q   Fishpool, Lincoln D C ^a   Fitzgerald, Claire ^b   Foster, Matt ^r   Heath, Melanie F ^a   Hockings, Marc ^s   Hoffmann, Michael ^b,o,t   Knox, David ^u   Larsen, Frank W ^o   Lamoreux, John F ^r   Loucks, Colby ^k   May, Ian ^a   Millett, James ^v,w   Molloy, Dominic ^w   Morling, Paul ^w   Parr, Mike ^x   Ricketts, Taylor H ^y   Seddon, Nathalie ^z   Skolnik, Benjamin ^x   Stuart, Simon N ^b,o,t,aa,ab   Upgren, Amy ^o   Woodley, Stephen ^ac   more..

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d United Nations Educational   (France)

^e BirdLife International Africa Partnership Secretariat   (Kenya)

^f THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^g NATURESERVE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^k World Wildlife Fund ^*  (United States)

^l BirdLife International Asia Regional Office   (Japan)

^m BirdLife International Americas Secretariat   (Ecuador)

ⁿ Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands   (Switzerland)

^o Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^p Birds Australia   (Australia)

^q Aves y Conservación   (Ecuador)

^r National Fish and Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^t IUCN   (Switzerland)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^v BirdLife International Pacific Partnership Secretariat   (Fiji)

^w RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^x American Bird Conservancy   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^aa University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^ab Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort   (United Arab Emirates)

^ac PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^ad NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^ae MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONIFER; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PLANT;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84858668604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032529     Document Type: Article

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