Towards a Global Tree Assessment

ORYX

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 410-415

  Newton, Adrian ^a   Oldfield, Sara ^b   Rivers, Malin ^b   Mark, Jennifer ^a   Schatz, George ^c   Garavito, Natalia Tejedor ^a   Cantarello, Elena ^a   Golicher, Duncan ^a   Cayuela, Luis ^d   Miles, Lera ^e  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b and Botanical Gardens   (United Kingdom)

^c MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; conservation; extinction risk; flora; forest; Red List; threat; tree

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; EXTINCTION RISK; FLORA; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RED LIST; TREE;

EID: 84934436553     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605315000137     Document Type: Article

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