The effect of target extent on the location of optimal protected areas networks in Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1477-1487

  Wiersma, Yolanda F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecoregions; Ecozones; Protected areas; Redundancy; Representative networks; Reserve location; Scaling; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ECOREGION; LAND USE PLANNING; PROTECTED AREA; SITE SELECTION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 35848939843     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9126-2     Document Type: Article

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