Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs): the development and characteristics of a global inventory of key sites for biodiversity

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 177-198

  Donald, Paul F ^a   Fishpool, Lincoln D C ^a   Ajagbe, Ademola ^c   Bennun, Leon A ^a,b   Bunting, Gill ^a   Burfield, Ian J ^a   Butchart, Stuart H M ^a   Capellan, Sofia ^a   Crosby, Michael J ^a   Dias, Maria P ^a   Diaz, David ^d   Evans, Michael I ^a   Grimmett, Richard ^a   Heath, Melanie ^a   Jones, Victoria R ^a   Lascelles, Benjamin G ^a   Merriman, Jennifer C ^a   O'brien, Mark ^d   Ramírez, Iván ^a   Waliczky, Zoltan ^d   Wege, David C ^a   more..

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BirdLife International Africa Partnership Secretariat   (Kenya)

^c BirdLife International Americas Secretariat   (Ecuador)

^d BirdLife International Pacific Partnership Secretariat   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; RANGE SIZE; REGIONAL PLANNING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES INVENTORY;

AVES;

EID: 85052471962     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270918000102     Document Type: Article

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