Questioning the effectiveness of the Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation strategy: The case of Crete

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-207

  Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Memtsas, Dimitris ^a   Troumbis, Andreas Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Conservation value; Endemism; Greece; Hotspots; Rarity; Reserve selection algorithms

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; PROTECTED AREA; RARITY; ALGORITHM; ENDEMISM; PLANT;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2642565174     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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