This document provides information on inland waters and their biodiversity, and includes the first global assessment of areas of special importance for freshwater biodiversity, based on expert opinion and data. It also includes a first comparative analysis of major river basins, using indicators of biodiversity, the condition of catchment basins and pressures on water resources, in order to generate indices of importance and risk
Authors
- Broad subject
- Biological diversity
- Call number
- IUCN-WCMC-008
- ISBN
- 1-899628-12-6
- Imprint
- Cambridge : World Conservation Press, 1998
- Monographic Series no
- no.008
- Number of copies
- 1
- Physical Description
- v, 104p. + 14 maps
- Published in
- UNEP, WCMC
