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SUBMITTER: Chown SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5369689 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chown Steven L SL Brooks Cassandra M CM Terauds Aleks A Le Bohec Céline C van Klaveren-Impagliazzo Céline C Whittington Jason D JD Butchart Stuart H M SH Coetzee Bernard W T BW Collen Ben B Convey Peter P Gaston Kevin J KJ Gilbert Neil N Gill Mike M Höft Robert R Johnston Sam S Kennicutt Mahlon C MC Kriesell Hannah J HJ Le Maho Yvon Y Lynch Heather J HJ Palomares Maria M Puig-Marcó Roser R Stoett Peter P McGeoch Melodie A MA
PLoS biology 20170328 3
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, adopted under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides the basis for taking effective action to curb biodiversity loss across the planet by 2020-an urgent imperative. Yet, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which encompass 10% of the planet's surface, are excluded from assessments of progress against the Strategic Plan. The situation is a lost opportunity for biodiversity conservation globally. We provide such an assessment. Our eviden ...[more]