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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

The Atlantic elements in the Swiss flora: distribution, diversity, and conservation status

Kozlowski, Gregor ; Bürcher, Sandra ; Fleury, Matthieu ; Huber, Fanny

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2009, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 649-662

The purpose of this study was to examine the composition, distribution, ecology, and conservation status of the Atlantic elements of the Swiss flora. About 195 Atlantic and 80 Mediterranean–Atlantic vascular plant species of the European flora have been used as the basis for our analysis. The complete list of 3,143 taxa has been used as the reference for the Swiss flora. The distributions...

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...