The growth of easements as a conservation tool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fishburn, Isla S ^a   Kareiva, Peter ^b   Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Armsworth, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVESTMENT; LAND USE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63449087907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004996     Document Type: Article

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