Complementarity and the use of indicator groups for reserve selection in Uganda

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 472-475

  Howard, Peter C ^a,c   Viskanic, Paolo ^a,d   Davenport, Tim R B ^a,e   Kigenyi, Fred W ^a   Baltzer, Michael ^a,f   Dickinson, Chris J ^a,g   Lwanga, Jeremiah S ^a,h   Matthews, Roger A ^a,i   Balmford, Andrew ^b  

^a Forest Department   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Wildlife Department   (Ghana)

^d Food and Agriculture Organisation   (Uganda)

^e World Wide Fund for Nature   (Cameroon)

^f Groundtruth International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL FOREST DEPARTMENT   (Thailand)

^h MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

ⁱ Terrestrial Science Group at the Headquarters   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; RESERVE DESIGN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY; TROPICS; UGANDA;

UGANDA;

EID: 0032581565     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28843     Document Type: Article

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