The importance of local and regional factors in predicting effective conservation. Planning strategies for wetland bird communities in agricultural and urban landscapes

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 49-65

  Whited, Diane ^a   Galatowitsch, Susan ^a   Tester, John R ^a   Schik, Karen ^a   Lehtinen, Rick ^a   Husveth, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Land use; Wetland conservation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANNING PROCESS; REGIONAL PLANNING; WETLAND;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0034713322     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(00)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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