The IUCN red list of ecosystems: Motivations, challenges, and applications

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 214-226

  Keith, David A ^a,b,c,d   Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^d,e,f   Brooks, Thomas M ^d   Burgman, Mark A ^g   Barrow, Edmund G ^h   Bland, Lucie ^g   Comer, Patrick J ⁱ   Franklin, Janet ^j   Link, Jason ^k   Mccarthy, Michael A ^g   Miller, Rebecca M ^l   Murray, Nicholas J ^a   Nel, Jeanne ^m   Nicholson, Emily ^g,p   Oliveira Miranda, María A ^f   Regan, Tracey J ^g,q   Rodríguez Clark, Kathryn M ^c   Rouget, Mathieu ⁿ   Spalding, Mark D ^o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d IUCN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^f PROVITA   (Venezuela)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme   (Kenya)

ⁱ NATURESERVE   (United States)

^j ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^l IUCN Global Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^m DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^p DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^q ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Conservation status; Ecosystem classification; Ecosystem collapse; Ecosystem services; IUCN Red List of Ecosystems; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species; Threatened ecological communities; Threatened habitat types

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931955315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12167     Document Type: Article

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