Reserve selection in regions with poor biological data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 188-195

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; PRIORITIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 0037329477     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01268.x     Document Type: Article

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