Multiple-species conservation planning for European wetlands with different degrees of coordination

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1812-1821

  Jantke, Kerstin ^a,b   Schneider, Uwe Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

European environmental policies; Mixed integer programming; Persistence; Representation; Set covering problem; Systematic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PERSISTENCE; PLANNING SYSTEM; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY; WETLAND;

EUROPE;

EID: 77954818403     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.036     Document Type: Article

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