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Is the global conservation status assessment of a threatened taxon a utopia?

Kozlowski, Gregor

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2008, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 445-448

Université de Fribourg

Is the global conservation status assessment of a threatened taxon a utopia?

Kozlowski, Gregor

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2008, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 445-448

The signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. How will we know, however, if we have achieved this goal? Eight groups of hindrances in evaluating the global conservation status of threatened taxon are identified: (1) the extreme heterogeneity and (2) restricted availability of relevant data; (3) the...