Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool
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Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool
GeoCAT is an open source, browser based tool that performs rapid geospatial analysis to ease the process of Red Listing taxa. Developed to utilise spatially referenced primary occurrence data, the analysis focuses on two aspects of the geographic range of a taxon: the extent of occurrence (EOO) and the area of occupancy (AOO). These metrics form part of the IUCN Red List categories and criteria...
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عنوان ژورنال: ZooKeys
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1313-2970,1313-2989
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2109