Making robust decisions for conservation with restricted money and knowledge

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1630-1638

  McDonald Madden, Eve ^a   Baxter, Peter W J ^a,b   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation funding; Decision theory; Info gap; Model uncertainty; Resource allocation; Sumatran tiger; Triage

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; FINANCE; POACHING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; KERINCI SEBLAT NATIONAL PARK; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS SUMATRAE;

EID: 54349084124     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01553.x     Document Type: Article

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