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Critical Catchments for the Conservation of Europe's Freshwater Biodiversity

Critical Catchments for the Conservation of Europe's Freshwater Biodiversity

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The map shows the results of the prioritisation of 18,816 river and lake catchments in Europe based on their importance in the conservation of freshwater biodiversity.

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

see also:

Carrizo, S. F., Lengyel, S., Kapusi, F., Szabolcs, M., Kasperidus, H. D., Scholz, M., Markovic, D., Freyhof, J., Cid, N., Cardoso, A. C. and Darwall, W. 2017. Critical catchments for freshwater biodiversity conservation in Europe: identification, prioritisation and gap-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12842

with support provided by: BioFresh project

 

authors

Szabolcs Lengyel and Savrina Carrizo

contact

William Darwall
Freshwater Biodiversity Unit
IUCN Global Species Programme
The David Attenborough Building
Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ
United Kingdom
www.iucn.org/species/freshwater

and

Szabolcs Lengyel Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Centre for Ecological Research
Danube Research Institute
4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c
Hungary
http://www.okologia.mta.hu/en/Szabolcs.LENGYEL

Related Publications

  • Abell, R., Thieme, M. L., Revenga, C., Bryer, M., Kottelat, M., Bogutskaya, N., … Petry, P. (2008). Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. BioScience, 58, 403–414.

base layer references

  • Hydrobasins v1b (HydroBASINS Version 1.b Global watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineation derived from HydroSHEDS data at 15 second resolution. Technical Documentation. Lehner B. 2012).

acknowledgements

This work was supported by the EU BioFresh Project, Contract No. 226874.

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