Planning for reserve adequacy in dynamic landscapes; maximizing future representation of vegetation communities under flood disturbance in the Pantanal wetland

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-310

  Lourival, Reinaldo ^a,b,c   Drechsler, Martin ^d   Watts, Matthew E ^b   Game, Edward T ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^b  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF BRAZIL   (Brazil)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Flood dynamics; Marxan; Probabilistic model; Succession; Wetland

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; DISTURBANCE; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

PANTANAL;

EID: 79951682794     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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