| Titre : | Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs): the development and characteristics of a global inventory of key sites for biodiversity (2019) |
| Titre original: | Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) |
| Auteurs : | Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Ademola Ajagbe, Auteur ; Leon A. Bennun, Auteur ; Gill Bunting, Auteur ; Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ; Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur ; Sofia Capellan, Auteur ; Michael J. Crosby, Auteur ; Maria P. Dias, Auteur ; David Diaz, Auteur ; Michael I. Evans, Auteur ; Richard Grimmett, Auteur ; Melanie Heath, Auteur ; Victoria R. Jones, Auteur ; Benjamin G. Lascelles, Auteur ; Jennifer C. Merriman, Auteur ; Mark O’Brien, Auteur ; Ivan Ramirez, Auteur ; Zoltan Waliczky, Auteur ; David C. Wege, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Bird Conservation International (29(2) June, 2019) |
| Article en page(s) : | 177-198 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are sites identified as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations on the basis of an internationally agreed set of criteria. We present the first review of the development and spread of the IBA concept since it was launched by BirdLife International (then ICBP) in 1979 and examine some of the characteristics of the resulting inventory. Over 13,000 global and regional IBAs have so far been identified and documented in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in almost all of the world’s countries and territories, making this the largest global network of sites of significance for biodiversity. IBAs have been identified using standardised, data-driven criteria that have been developed and applied at global and regional levels. These criteria capture multiple dimensions of a site’s significance for avian biodiversity and relate to populations of globally threatened species (68.6% of the 10,746 IBAs that meet global criteria), restricted-range species (25.4%), biome-restricted species (27.5%) and congregatory species (50.3%); many global IBAs (52.7%) trigger two or more of these criteria. IBAs range in size from |
| En ligne : | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/important-bird-and-biodiversity-areas-ibas-the-development-and-characteristics-of-a-global-inventory-of-key-sites-for-biodiversity/CCBCA00B56F9F1CD6E049AF22CA3792A |



