A Framework for implementing Biodiversity offsets: Selecting sites and determining scale

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-84

  Kiesecker, Joseph M ^a   Copeland, Holly ^a   Pocewicz, Amy ^a   Nibbelink, Nate ^a   McKenney, Bruce ^b   Dahlke, John ^c   Holloran, Matt ^d   Stroud, Dan ^e  

^a Nature Conservancy ^*

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Wyoming Wildlife Consultants   (United States)

^e WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity offsets; Marxan site selection; Mitigation hierarchy; No net loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 63449107134     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.1.11     Document Type: Article

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