Global Biodiversity Indicators Reflect the Modeled Impacts of Protected Area Policy Change

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-20

  Costelloe, Brendan ^a,b,c   Collen, Ben ^d   Milner Gulland, E J ^a   Craigie, Ian D ^e   Mcrae, Louise ^b   Rondinini, Carlo ^f   Nicholson, Emily ^a,g,h  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Convention on biological diversity; Living Planet Index; Population decline; Protected areas; Red List Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958895530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12163     Document Type: Letter

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