Assessing coincidence between priority conservation areas for vertebrate groups in a Mediterranean hotspot

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1120-1129

  Estrada, Alba ^a,b   Real, Raimundo ^b   Vargas, Juan Mario ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Favourability function; Fuzzy logic; Spatial modelling; Surrogates; Umbrella groups

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABILITY;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951811104     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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