Viable reserve networks arise from individual landholder responses to conservation incentives

Ecology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Chomitz, Kenneth M ^a   da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^b   Alger, Keith ^b   Stoms, David M ^c   Honzák, Miroslav ^b   Landau, Elena Charlotte ^d   Thomas, Timothy S ^a   Thomas, W Wayt ^e   Davis, Frank ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Conservational International ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahia; Biodiversity; Conservation; Conservation planning; Economic instruments; Land use

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INCENTIVE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDHOLDING; NETWORK DESIGN;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BAHIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846118787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01902-110240     Document Type: Article

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