Prioritizing land and sea conservation investments to protect coral reefs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Klein, Carissa J ^a   Ban, Natalie C ^b   Halpern, Benjamin S ^c   Beger, Maria ^a   Game, Edward T ^d   Grantham, Hedley S ^a   Green, Alison ^d   Klein, Travis J ^e   Kininmonth, Stuart ^f   Treml, Eric ^a   Wilson, Kerrie ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BUDGET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVESTMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLANNING; SEA; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BUDGETS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; INVESTMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 77957889569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012431     Document Type: Article

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