Use of substitute species in conservation biology

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1821-1826

  Caro, Tim ^a   Eadie, John ^a   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Model systems; Representative species; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURROGATE METHOD;

EID: 33244471524     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00251.x     Document Type: Review

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