Where do national and local conservation actions meet? Simulating the expansion of ad hoc and systematic approaches to conservation into the future in Fiji

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 387-398

  Mills, Morena ^a,b   Adams, Vanessa M ^a   Pressey, Robert L ^a   Ban, Natalie C ^a   Jupiter, Stacy D ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Ad hoc; Conservation planning; Implementation; Marine; Maxent; Opportunity; Systematic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867322886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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