The use of opportunistic data for IUCN Red List assessments

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 690-706

  Maes, Dirk ^a   Isaac, Nick J B ^b   Harrower, Colin A ^b   Collen, Ben ^c   van Strien, Arco J ^d   Roy, David B ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Britain; Citizen science; Europe; Flanders (north Belgium); Geographic range size; Threatened species; Trend calculations

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE SIZE; RED LIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84931571288     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12530     Document Type: Article

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