Ranking priority biodiversity areas: An iterative conservation value-based approach

Biological Conservation

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-272

  Freitag, Stefanie ^a   Van Jaarsveld, Albert S ^a   Biggs, Harry C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Conservation value; Reserve selection

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PRIORITY; MAMMAL; RARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030955286     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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