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- Publications
- Influence
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
- N. Myers, R. Mittermeier, C. G. Mittermeier, G. Fonseca, J. Kent
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Nature
- 24 February 2000
Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding. This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? One way… Expand
Wilderness and biodiversity conservation
- R. Mittermeier, C. Mittermeier, +4 authors C. Kormos
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 20 August 2003
Human pressure threatens many species and ecosystems, so conservation efforts necessarily prioritize saving them. However, conservation should clearly be proactive wherever possible. In this article,… Expand
2000 IUCN red list of threatened species
- C. Hilton-Taylor, C. Pollock, R. Mittermeier, D. Brackett
- Biology
- 2000
The 2000 Red List combines animals and plants into a single list containing assessments of more that 18,000 taxa. A large number of species has been reassessed and there has been a significant… Expand
Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities
- T. Brooks, R. Mittermeier, +6 authors A. Rodrigues
- Medicine
- Science
- 7 July 2006
The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation organizations have… Expand
The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge
- J. Schipper, Janice S. Chanson, +127 authors B. E. Young
- Biology, Environmental Science
- Science
- 10 October 2008
Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status and distribution of the… Expand
Conserving the World's Biological Diversity
- J. Mcneely, K. Miller, W. Reid, R. Mittermeier, T. Werner
- Geography
- 1 December 1990
The 1990s may be the last decade during which constructive and creative decisions, activities, and investments can be made to ensure that many of the world's species and ecosystems are maintained,… Expand
Lemurs of Madagascar
- R. Mittermeier
- Biology
- 1994
The third edition of this title has been designed for easy use and to be an indispensable companion for the ecotourist, and especially for the primate-watcher. The 101 lemur species and subspecies… Expand
The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates
- M. Hoffmann, C. Hilton-Taylor, +171 authors S. Stuart
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 10 December 2010
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496, published online 26 October) review quantitative… Expand
Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter
- A. Estrada, P. Garber, +28 authors Baoguo Li
- Biology, Medicine
- Science Advances
- 1 January 2017
Impending extinction of the world’s primates due to human activities; immediate global attention is needed to reverse the trend. Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important… Expand