Global priorities for marine biodiversity conservation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Selig, Elizabeth R ^a   Turner, Will R ^a   Troëng, Sebastian ^a,b   Wallace, Bryan P ^c,d   Halpern, Benjamin S ^e,f,g   Kaschner, Kristin ^h,i   Lascelles, Ben G ^j   Carpenter, Kent E ^k,l   Mittermeier, Russell A ^m  

^a Conservation International   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Oceanic Society   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ CESAB Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité Immeuble Henri Poincaré Domaine du Petit Arbois   (France)

^j BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^k OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Global Species Programme   (Switzerland)

^m Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES RARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84897372590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082898     Document Type: Article

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