Planning for Biodiversity Conservation Using Stochastic Programming

Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue 9780817645557, 2008, Pages 101-107

  Fuller, Trevon ^a   Morton, David P ^a   Sarkar, Sahotra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; Conservation areas; conservation biology; reserve selection; stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649169841     PISSN: 21643679     EISSN: 21643725     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4556-4_9     Document Type: Chapter

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