Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-57

  Schmeller, Dirk S ^a,b,c   Julliard, Romain ^d   Bellingham, Peter J ^e   Böhm, Monika ^f   Brummitt, Neil ^g   Chiarucci, Alessandro ^h   Couvet, Denis ^d   Elmendorf, Sarah ⁱ   Forsyth, David M ^j,k   Moreno, Jaime García ^l   Gregory, Richard D ^m   Magnusson, William E ⁿ   Martin, Laura J ^o   McGeoch, Melodie A ^p   Mihoub, Jean Baptiste ^a   Pereira, Henrique M ^q,r   Proença, Vânia ^s   van Swaay, Chris A M ^t   Yahara, Tetsukazu ^u   Belnap, Jayne ^v  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Museúm National d'H istoire Naturelle   (France)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^j ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^l Het Haam 16   (Netherlands)

^m RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^o Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^p MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^q GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^r MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^s INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^t DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

^u KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^v DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Convention on Biological Diversity; Essential Biodiversity Variable; GEO System of Systems; Group of Earth Observation Biodiversity; Observation Network

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NATURE CONSERVATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84930047562     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2015.03.003     Document Type: Review

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