Four barriers to the global understanding of biodiversity conservation: Wealth, language, geographical location and security

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1756, 2013, Pages

  Amano, Tatsuya ^a   Sutherland, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity information; Geographical locations; Global biodiversity databases; Languages; Scientific communication; Security

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; METHODS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

IM; MLCS; MLOWN; NLM;

EID: 84878352542     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2649     Document Type: Article

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