Prioritizing threat management for biodiversity conservation

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-204

  Carwardine, Josie ^a,f   O'Connor, Trudy ^b,e   Legge, Sarah ^c,d   Mackey, Brendan ^e,g   Possingham, Hugh P ^f   Martin, Tara G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b The Wilderness Society   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY   (Australia)

^d CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Cost effectiveness analysis; Decision theory; Landscape scale; Priority setting; Restoration; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862516967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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