The effectiveness of surrogate taxa for the representation of biodiversity

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1367-1377

  Lewandowski, Adam S ^a   Noss, Reed F ^b   Parsons, David R ^c  

^a California Resources Agency   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Rewilding Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogate; Complementarity; Hotspots; Site selection; Spatial prioritization; Species richness; Surrogate taxa

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DESERT; GRASSLAND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957167848     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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