Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: strengths of the IUCN Red List Index.

@article{Butchart2006BiodiversityIB,
  title={Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: strengths of the IUCN Red List Index.},
  author={Stuart H. M. Butchart and H. Reşit Akçakaya and Elizabeth T. Kennedy and Craig Hilton‐Taylor},
  journal={Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology},
  year={2006},
  volume={20 2},
  pages={
          579-81
        }
}
STUART H. M. BUTCHART,∗ H. RESIT AKCAKAYA,‡ ELIZABETH KENNEDY,§ AND CRAIG HILTON-TAYLOR∗∗ ∗BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA, United Kingdom, email stuart.butchart@birdlife.org ‡Applied Biomathematics, 100 North Country Road, Setauket, New York 11733, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, NW Street 600, Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A. ∗∗IUCN Species Programme Office, 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, United Kingdom 
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