Effective conservation planning requires learning and adaptation

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 431-437

  Grantham, Hedley S ^a   Bode, Michael ^b   McDonald Madden, Eve ^a   Game, Edward T ^a,c   Knight, Andrew T ^d   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c TNC   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING;

EID: 77957744522     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080151     Document Type: Review

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