The ED strategy: How species-level surrogates indicate general biodiversity patterns through an 'environmental diversity' perspective

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1207-1217

  Faith, D P ^a   Ferrier, S ^b,d   Walker, P A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b Dept of Environ and Conservation ^*  (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Corroboration; Environmental diversity; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; Multi dimensional scaling; Philosophy of science; Popper

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR;

EID: 3543105612     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01145.x     Document Type: Review

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