Conservation biogeography: Assessment and prospect

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-23

  Whittaker, Robert J ^a   Araújo, Miguel B ^a   Jepson, Paul ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^a   Watson, James E M ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation biogeography; Models; Protected area frameworks; Scale; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HISTORICAL RECORD;

GABAZA;

EID: 13444254479     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00143.x     Document Type: Review

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