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. (FTP site).
WCMC Biodiversity Series No. 8
Freshwater Biodiversity: a preliminary global
Larger rivers of the world, including a list of basins analysed in this report and a preliminary revised list of international basins
River basin analysis: select data from WCMC freshwater biodiversity database
Table 1.
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