Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 549-554

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Peterson, Garry D ^b,c   Gardner, Toby A ^d,e   Gordon, Line J ^b   Fazey, Ioan ^f   Elmqvist, Thomas ^b   Felton, Adam ^g   Folke, Carl ^b,h   Dovers, Stephen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURE CONSERVATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; THINKING;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; THINKING;

EID: 69749116500     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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