Robustness of reserve selection procedures under temporal species turnover

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1438, 2000, Pages 49-55

  Rodrigues, Ana S L L ^a   Gregory, Richard D ^b,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Conservation; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Turnover

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; RESERVE DESIGN; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES;

EID: 0034614485     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0965     Document Type: Article

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