Two paths to a suboptimal solution - once more about optimality in reserve selection

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1919-1923

  Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conservation outcome; Integer programming; Meta heuristic; Reserve network design; Reserve selection; Site selection; Spatial optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT LOSS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESERVE DESIGN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SITE SELECTION;

EID: 46749093720     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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