Selecting Areas for Conservation

• 19 February 1998
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 176-201
• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444313499.ch9

Abstract

Keywords

• SELECTING AREAS FOR CONSERVATION
• SCALE OF CRISIS FACING BIODIVERSITY AND NEED FOR PRIORITIES FOR CONSERVATION EFFORT
• EARTH'S TERRESTRIAL BIODIVERSITY
• HIGH-RANKING COUNTRIES AND SPECIES RICHNESS
• WORLD CONSERVATION UNION (IUCN) ON PROTECTED AREAS
• BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION EVALUATION
• CONSERVATION PRIORITIES AND ECOREGIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
• ENDEMIC BIRD AREAS
• GLOBAL REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
• CRITERIA-BASED EVALUATION OF SITES