How large do reserve networks need to be?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 602-609

  Rodrigues, A S L ^a   Gaston, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Conservation targets; Macroecology; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MACROECOLOGY; NETWORK DESIGN; RESERVE DESIGN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035193566     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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