Modelling the optimal conservation of interacting species

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 123-144

  Witting, Lars ^a   Tomiuk, Jürgen ^b   Loeschcke, Volker ^b  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation biology; Phylogeny; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034650964     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00177-5     Document Type: Article

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