Anchor areas to improve conservation and increase connectivity within the Brazilian "Mesopotamia of Biodiversity"

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-231

  Holvorcem, Christiane Gonçalves Dall'Aglio ^a   Tambosi, Leandro Reverberi ^b   Ribeiro, Milton Cezar ^c   Costa, Sabrina ^d   Mesquita, Carlos Alberto Bernardo ^d  

^a Instituto BioAtlântica   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d Instituto BioAtlântica   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Bahia bioregion; Conservation site prioritization; Graph based metrics; Landscape connectivity; Landscape restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864099473     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.2011.030     Document Type: Article

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