Selection of islands for conservation in the Urban Archipelago of Helsinki, Finland

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1293-1300

  Ranta, Pertti ^a   Tanskanen, Antti ^b   Niemelä, Jari ^a   Kurtto, Arto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Metsätähti Ltd   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ISLAND; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES RARITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

FINLAND;

EID: 0032714970     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98290.x     Document Type: Article

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