Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-80

  McClenachan, Loren ^a   Cooper, Andrew B ^a   Carpenter, Kent E ^b   Dulvy, Nicholas K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CITES; Climate change; Elasmobranchs; Fishing impacts; IUCN Red List; Reef fish; Taxonomic bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861322444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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