The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Conservation Activities Carried out So Far
3. The Green Status Approach
4. Mediterranean Plant Green Status Case Study: Ribes sardoum Martelli
5. Future Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Cogoni, D.; Grace, M.K.; Long, B.; Orsenigo, S.; Fenu, G. The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort. Plants 2022, 11, 2592. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11192592
Cogoni D, Grace MK, Long B, Orsenigo S, Fenu G. The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort. Plants. 2022; 11(19):2592. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11192592
Chicago/Turabian StyleCogoni, Donatella, Molly K. Grace, Barney Long, Simone Orsenigo, and Giuseppe Fenu. 2022. "The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort" Plants 11, no. 19: 2592. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11192592
APA StyleCogoni, D., Grace, M. K., Long, B., Orsenigo, S., & Fenu, G. (2022). The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort. Plants, 11(19), 2592. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11192592