IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

Sapiens

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 60-70

  Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^a,b,c   Rodríguez Clark, Kathryn M ^a   Keith, David A ^d,e   Barrow, Edmund G ^c   Benson, John ^f   Nicholson, Emily ^g   Wit, Piet ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b Provita   (Venezuela)

^c IUCN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^f Royal Botanic Gardens Trust   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem collapse; Ecosystem degradation; Ecosystem threat status; Endangered ecosystems; IUCN categories and criteria; IUCN Red List; Land water use and conservation; Risk assessment; Threatened ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868328705     PISSN: 19933800     EISSN: 19933819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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