The payoff of conservation investments in tropical countryside

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19342-19347

  Chan, Kai M A ^a,b   Daily, Gretchen C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation planning; Countryside biogeography; Ecological economic models; Matrix

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INCOME; INVESTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES;

EID: 58049217379     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810522105     Document Type: Article

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