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  • Rapid endangered species assessment : a novel approach to improve extinction risk assessments in poorly known species

    Creator:
    Bianchi, Carlos A.
    Abstract:
    The number of endangered species is rapidly increasing while paucity of adequate information and resources delays establishment of conservation actions. The IUCN’s listing system is insufficient to determine conservation priorities and many species lack information even to be evaluated (i.e., “data deficient”). Here I proposed and tested the Rapid Endangered...
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    Dissertation
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    , K. Richardson, R. Scachetti-Pereira, R. E. Schapire, J. Soberón, S. Williams, M. S. Wisz, and N. E

  • Deforestation Trends of Tropical Dry Forests in Central Brazil

    Creator:
    Bianchi, Carlos A. and Haig, Susan M.
    Abstract:
    Tropical dry forests are the most threatened forest type in the world yet a paucity of research about them stymies development of appropriate conservation actions. The Paran~a River Basin has the most significant dry forest formations in the Cerrado biome of central Brazil and is threatened by intense land conversion...
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    percent in Mexico (Trejo & Dirzo 2000); 2.1 percent in Costa Rica (Steininger et al. 2001); 1.1 to 2.6