Assessing biodiversity conservation priorities: Ecosystem risk and representativeness in continental Ecuador

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-110

  Sierra, Rodrigo ^a   Campos, Felipe ^b   Chamberlin, Jordan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Gap analysis; Reserve networks; Reserve representativeness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONSERVATION PLANNING;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; RESERVE DESIGN;

ECUADOR;

AVES;

EID: 0037090457     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00006-3     Document Type: Article

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