Considerations of scale in biodiversity conservation

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 229-236

  du Toit, J T ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental planning; Globalization; Multi scale analysis; Spatiotemporal scaling; Triage

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GLOBALIZATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77952810720     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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