Predicting vegetation condition and weed distributions for systematic conservation management: An application of GRASP in the central South Island, New Zealand

Science for Conservation

Volumn , Issue 220, 2003, Pages 5-41

  Overton, Jacob McC ^a   Lehmann, Anthony ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Found data; Generalised regression analysis and spatial prediction; Geographic information systems; Management; Measuring conservation achievement; New Zealand; Probability sampling; Vegetation condition; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WEED;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0038265480     PISSN: 11732946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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