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Identifying Important Plant Areas: A site selection manual for Europe.
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This manual describes the aims and background of the IPA Programme, the role of IPAs in global and European conservation, and the organisational structure of the IPA Secretariat and the IPA national teams. It outlines the IPA criteria, the methodology for applying the criteria and the guiding principles for selecting sites. The data collection process is described and the information that should be recorded about each IPA is given in the IPA questionnaire.
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