Planning for restoration: A decision analysis approach to prioritization

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 460-470

  Cipollini, Kendra A ^a,b   Maruyama, Aimee L ^a,c   Zimmerman, Christopher L ^a,d  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILMINGTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Eastern New York Conservation Office ^*  (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning; Conservation planning; Edge of Appalachia; Limestone prairies; Multiattribute analysis; Ohio

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION ANALYSIS; PRIORITIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 29144534174     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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