Land systems as surrogates for biodiversity in conservation planning

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 485-503

  Oliver, Ian ^a,c   Holmes, Andrew ^a,d   Dangerfield, J Mark ^a   Gillings, Michael ^a   Pik, Anthony J ^a   Britton, David R ^a   Holley, Marita ^a   Montgomery, Margaret E ^a   Raison, Madeline ^a   Logan, Vicki ^b   Pressey, Robert L ^b   Beattie, Andrew J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Invertebrates, distribution; Land systems; Microbiota, distribution; Spatial autocorrelation; Sturt National Park, New South Wales, Australia; Vascular plants, distribution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT TYPE; ISOLATION EFFECT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; SURROGATE METHOD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MICROBIOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 12144288265     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5181     Document Type: Article

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