Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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The IUCN Red List: a key conservation tool |
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State of the world's species |
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Freshwater biodiversity: a hidden resource under threat |
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Status of the world's marine species |
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Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson |
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Broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments |
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Species susceptibility to climate change impacts |
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The Mediterranean: a biodiversity hotspot under threat |
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Summary of the five criteria used to evaluate if a taxon belongs in a threatened category |
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM threat categories scale |
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Sources for numbers of described species used in Table 1 of the chapter State of the World's Species |
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Summary of number of animal species in each Red List Category in each taxonomic class |
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Summary of number of plant species in each Red List Category in each taxonomic class |
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Number of species in each Red List Category in each major animal taxonomic group (Class, Order) |
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110 | (6) |
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Number of species in each Red List Category in each major plant taxonomic group (Class, Family) |
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116 | (9) |
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Number of threatened species in each major group of organisms in each country |
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125 | (7) |
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Number of extinct, threatened and other species of animals in each Red List Category in each country |
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132 | (7) |
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Number of extinct, threatened and other species of plants in each Red List Category in each country |
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139 | (6) |
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Number of endemic and threatened endemic species per country for completely assessed taxonomic groups (mammals, birds, amphibians, freshawter crabs, reef-forming corals, conifers, conifers, cycads) |
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145 | (7) |
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Species changing IUCN Red List Category for genuine reasons |
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