Impacts of data quality on the setting of conservation planning targets using the species-area relationship

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Metcalfe, Kristian ^a   Delavenne, Juliette ^b   Garcia, Clément ^c   Foveau, Aurélie ^b   Dauvin, Jean Claude ^d   Coggan, Roger ^c   Vaz, Sandrine ^b   Harrop, Stuart R ^a   Smith, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

English Channel; Habitat targets; Marine Conservation Zones; Marine protected areas; Species area relationship; Systematic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; HABITAT TYPE; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE PARK; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84871108302     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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