A conservation auction for landscape linkage in the southern Desert Uplands, Queensland

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-135

  Windle, Jill ^a   Rolfe, John ^a   McCosker, Juliana ^b   Lingard, Andrea ^c  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c Desert Uplands Committee   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Market based instruments; Vegetation corridors

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949104774     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ08042     Document Type: Article

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