How to resolve the SLOSS debate: Lessons from species-diversity models

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 604-612

  Tjørve, Even ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Minimum area requirements; Reserve design; Species extinction; Species overlap; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; RESERVE DESIGN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951652717     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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