Nature reserve selection in the Transvaal, South Africa: What data should we be using?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 685-698

  Freitag, Stefanie ^a   Nicholls, A O ^b   Van Jaarsveld, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

databases; mammals; reserve selection; South Africa

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION MAP; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MAMMAL; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVE SELECTION;

SOUTH AFRICA, TRANSVAAL;

EID: 0030304518     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051781     Document Type: Article

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