A successful community-level strategy for conservation prioritization

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1436-1445

  Arponen, Anni ^a   Moilanen, Atte ^a   Ferrier, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community modelling; Complementarity; Environmental classification; Environmental surrogacy; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; Ordination; p median; Reserve selection; Site selection algorithm; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MODELING; PRIORITIZATION; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 50649112330     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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