The use of land facets as biodiversity surrogates during reserve selection at a local scale

Biological Conservation

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-38

  Wessels, K J ^a   Freitag, S ^a   Van Jaarsveld, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land facets; Priority conservation areas; Reserve selection; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; NATURE RESERVE; SITE SELECTION; SURVEYING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032961148     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00133-5     Document Type: Article

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