Delineating the ecosystems containing protected areas for monitoring and management

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 363-373

  Hansen, Andrew J ^a   Davis, Cory R ^b   Piekielek, Nathan ^b   Gross, John ^c   Theobald, David M ^d   Goetz, Scott ^e   Melton, Forrest ^f   Defries, Ruth ^g  

^a Landscape Biodiversity Lab   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Program   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem; land use change; management; monitoring; protected area

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956151567     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.5.5     Document Type: Article

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