Optimisation in reserve selection procedures - Why not?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-129

  Rodrigues, Ana S L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Conservation priorities; Heuristics; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; LINEAR PROGRAMING; RESERVE DESIGN; SITE SELECTION;

EID: 0036276286     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00042-3     Document Type: Article

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