Farming and the fate of wild nature

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5709, 2005, Pages 550-555

  Green, Rhys E ^a,b   Cornell, Stephen J ^a,c   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^a,b   Balmford, Andrew ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AGRICULTURAL YIELDS; FOOD DEMAND; POPULATION DENSITIES; SPECIES PERSISTENCE;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HARVEST; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXON; WILD SPECIES; WILDLIFE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 12844280433     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106049     Document Type: Article

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