Adapting the IUCN Red List criteria for invertebrates

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2432-2440

  Cardoso, Pedro ^a,b   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Triantis, Kostas A ^b,c   Ferrández, Miguel A ^d   Martín, José L ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Sociedad para el Estudio y la Conservación de las Arañas   (Spain)

^e The Canary Agency for Sustainable Development and Climate Change   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Conservation priority; Extinction; Risk assessment; Threatened species; World Conservation Union

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BODY SIZE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; PRIORITIZATION; RED LIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIDER; TAXONOMY; THRESHOLD;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860388920     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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