Cost-effective conservation decisions are robust to uncertainty in the species-area relationship

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

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Bode, Michael ^a   Murdoch, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 60549097510     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811568106     Document Type: Letter

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