The IUCN global assessments: Partnerships, collaboration and data sharing for biodiversity science and policy

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 327-333

  Lacher, Thomas E ^a   Boitani, Luigi ^b   da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation funding; Data sharing; GEF; IUCN; Partnerships; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867350395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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