Sample shape, spatial scale and species counts: Implications for reserve design

Biological Conservation

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 369-377

  Kunin, William E ^a,b  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diversity; Nature reserves; Shape effects; SLOSS; Spatial autocorrelation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

NATURE RESERVE; RESERVE DESIGN;

EID: 0030885563     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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