Lessons from fragmentation research: Improving management and policy guidelines for biodiversity conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 734-739

  Tabarelli, Marcello ^a   Gascon, Claude ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GUIDELINE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION;

EID: 20044394436     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00698.x     Document Type: Review

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