Biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales: Problems and opportunities

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 113-126

  Bunnell, Fred L ^a   Huggard, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b (DJH) Ministry of Forests   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forestry; Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033594235     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00392-2     Document Type: Article

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