Sound science or social hook - A response to Brooker's application of the focal species approach

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-158

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a   Fischer, J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogate schemes; Focal species approach; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape restoration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION;

LANDSCAPES;

URBAN PLANNING;

BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; NEOPLEA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037318031     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00147-0     Document Type: Article

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