Predicting occurrences of geographically restricted rare floral elements with qualitative habitat data

Environmental Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 167-190

  MacDougall, Andrew S ^a   Loo, Judy A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management; Gap analysis; Habitat directed biodiversity survey; New Brunswick; Rare species; Reserve network

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSCAPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION; DATA BASES; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0036025747     PISSN: 11818700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/a02-005     Document Type: Review

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