Costs of Expanding the Network of Protected Areas as a Response to Climate Change in the Cape Floristic Region

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 397-407

  Wise, Russell M ^a   Reyers, Belinda ^b   Guo, Chris ^c   Midgley, Guy F ^d   De Lange, Willem ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Economic costs; Invasive species; Plant clearing; Protected area expansion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PLANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84861185447     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01841.x     Document Type: Note

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