Using presence-absence data to establish reserve selection procedures that are robust to temporal species turnover

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1446, 2000, Pages 897-902

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Monitoring; Turnover

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; PERSISTENCE; RESERVE DESIGN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; COST; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

EID: 0034616512     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1087     Document Type: Article

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