Green plants in the red: A baseline global assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Brummitt, Neil A ^a   Bachman, Steven P ^b,c   Griffiths Lee, Janine ^b   Lutz, Maiko ^b   Moat, Justin F ^b,c   Farjon, Aljos ^b   Donaldson, John S ^d   Hilton Taylor, Craig ^e   Meagher, Thomas R ^f   Albuquerque, Sara ^b,h   Aletrari, Elina ^a,b,g   Andrews, A Kei ^b,i   Atchison, Guy ^a,j   Baloch, Elisabeth ^b   Barlozzini, Barbara ^b,k   Brunazzi, Alice ^b,l   Carretero, Julia ^b   Celesti, Marco ^b,m   Chadburn, Helen ^b   Cianfoni, Eduardo ^b   Cockel, Chris ^b,n   Coldwell, Vanessa ^b,o   Concetti, Benedetta ^b,p   Contu, Sara ^a,b   Crook, Vicki ^b,q   Dyson, Philippa ^b,r   Gardiner, Lauren ^b   Ghanim, Nadia ^b   Greene, Hannah ^a,s   Groom, Alice ^b,t   Harker, Ruth ^a,b   Hopkins, Della ^a   Khela, Sonia ^b,u   Lakeman Fraser, Poppy ^b,v   Lindon, Heather ^a,b   Lockwood, Helen ^b,w   Loftus, Christine ^b,x   Lombrici, Debora ^b   Lopez Poveda, Lucia ^a,b   Lyon, James ^b   Malcolm Tompkins, Patricia ^b   McGregor, Kirsty ^b,y   Moreno, Laura ^b,n   Murray, Linda ^b   Nazar, Keara ^b   Power, Emily ^b   Tuijtelaars, Mireya Quiton ^b   Salter, Ruth ^b   Segrott, Robert ^b   Thacker, Hannah ^b,z   Thomas, Leighton J ^b   Tingvoll, Sarah ^b,n   Watkinson, Gemma ^b   Wojtaszekova, Katerina ^b   Lughadha, Eimear M Nic ^a   more..

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^e IUCN Species Programme   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

ⁱ Institute of Systematic Botany University of Zurich ^*  (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^l SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

ⁿ ERSAF ^*  (United Kingdom)

^o WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^p ERSAF   (Italy)

^q TRAFFIC INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^r ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^s Jacobs UK Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^t RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^u Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Environmental Records Centre   (United Kingdom)

^v IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^w Artisan Plant Nurseries Kings Hill Nurseries   (United Kingdom)

^x International School of St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^y UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^z NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; CYCADOPHYTA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GYMNOSPERM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HARVESTING; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHY; RAIN FOREST; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 84942155620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135152     Document Type: Article

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