RobOff: Software for analysis of alternative land-use options and conservation actions

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-432

  Pouzols, Federico Montesino ^a   Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Computational sustainability; Conservation planning tool; Decision support; Marginal cost; Opportunity; Robustness; Scoring; Substitutability; Time discounting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877898888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12040     Document Type: Article

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