Harnessing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to track the Aichi Targets and Sustainable Development Goals

Biodiversity

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 157-174

  Brooks, Thomas M ^a   Butchart, Stuart H M ^b   Cox, Neil A ^a,c   Heath, Melanie ^b   Hilton Taylor, Craig ^d   Hoffmann, Michael ^a,e   Kingston, Naomi ^e   Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^a,f,g   Stuart, Simon N ^a,e   Smart, Jane ^a  

^a IUCN   (Switzerland)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^d IUCN   (United Kingdom)

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

^f INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^g Provita   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Aichi Targets; biodiversity; indicators; Key Biodiversity Areas; knowledge products; Protected Planet; Red List; Sustainable Development Goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944887504     PISSN: 14888386     EISSN: 21600651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2015.1075903     Document Type: Article

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