Place prioritization for biodiversity conservation using probabilistic surrogate distribution data

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-133

  Sarkar, Sahotra ^a   Pappas, Christopher ^a   Garson, Justin ^a   Aggarwal, Anshu ^a   Cameron, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Area selection; Conservation planning; Integer programming; Linear programming; Probabilistic data analysis; Reserve network selection; Site selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; LINEAR PROGRAMING; LOCATION DECISION; NATURE CONSERVATION; PRIORITIZATION; RESERVE DESIGN;

EID: 2342571742     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00060.x     Document Type: Article

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