Conservation Priority Index for Estuarine Fish (COPIEF)

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 581-588

  Branco, Paulo ^a,b   Costa, José Lino ^a   Raposo de Almeida, Pedro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

biodiversity; coastal lagoons; conservation; estuaries; fish species; multi metric index; Portugal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL LAGOON; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56549103833     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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