Identifying conservation areas on the basis of alternative distribution data sets: Contributed paper

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 162-170

  Underwood, Jared G ^a   D'Agrosa, Caterina ^a   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation planning; Distribution data; MARXAN; Species richness; Systematic reserve design

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; MAMMAL; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVE DESIGN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 74549138618     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01303.x     Document Type: Article

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