Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 1723-1732

  Froyd, C A ^a   Willis, K J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51249100200     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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