Evaluating official marine protected area coverage for Aichi Target 11: Appraising the data and methods that define our progress

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 24, Issue S2, 2014, Pages 8-23

  Thomas, Hannah L ^a   Macsharry, Brian ^a   Morgan, Lance ^b   Kingston, Naomi ^a   Moffitt, Russell ^b   Stanwell Smith, Damon ^a   Wood, Louisa ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Marine Conservation Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Aichi Target 11; Global targets; Marine protected area (MPA); World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913536325     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2511     Document Type: Article

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