Species-based versus habitat-based evaluation for conservation status assessment of habitat types in the East Aegean islands (Greece)

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 269-275

  Panitsa, Maria ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^a   Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^b   Zotos, Anastasios ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conservation assessment; Conservation mapping; Habitats diversity; Island ecosystems; Multi criteria analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDEMISM; GIS; HABITAT TYPE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE;

EID: 82555174408     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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