Conservation threats and priorities for raptors across Asia
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Abstract
With long coastlines and some of the world’s most important rivers, mountain ranges, high-altitude plateaus, and islands, Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world (Lyde 1904; Spencer 1954; Population Reference Bureau 2016). Asia supports all major terrestrial ecosystems and all major climatic types (Galloway et al. 1998; Braimoh and Huang 2015). These include barren ice fields and taigas in North Asia; boreal forests and cold deserts in West, Central, and East Asia; temperate and tropical forests (wet and dry) in East and Southeast Asia; and grasslands in Central and South Asia (Udvardy 1975; Braimoh and Huang 2015). Together, the ecoregions of Asia foster some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, including six (24%) of 25 global biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al. 2000).
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Conception, C.B., Bildstein, K.L., Collar, N.J., Katzner, T., 2018, Conservation threats and priorities for raptors across Asia, chap. of Birds of Prey, p. 395-418, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_17.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Conservation threats and priorities for raptors across Asia |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_17 |
| Publication Date | July 01, 2018 |
| Year Published | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center |
| Description | 24 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Title | Birds of Prey |
| First page | 395 |
| Last page | 418 |