Conservation when nothing stands still: Moving targets and biodiversity offsets

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 203-210

  Bull, Joseph W ^a   Suttle, Kenwyn B ^a   Singh, Navinder J ^b   Milner Gulland, E J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; STAND STRUCTURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNGULATE;

UZBEKISTAN;

SAIGA; SAIGA TATARICA;

EID: 84877783130     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120020     Document Type: Article

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