Landscape Zonation, benefit functions and target-based planning: Unifying reserve selection strategies

Biological Conservation

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 571-579

  Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Additive benefit function; Conservation planning; Optimization; Site selection algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PLANNING METHOD; RESERVE DESIGN; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ZONATION;

EID: 33845332422     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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