Identifying preservation and restoration priority areas for desert fishes in an increasingly invaded world

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 631-641

  Pool, Thomas K ^a   Strecker, Angela L ^b   Olden, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Freshwater landscapes; Native fish management; Spatial conservation prioritization

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION PRIORITIZATION; CONSERVATION TARGETS; FRESHWATER LANDSCAPES; LIMITED DISTRIBUTION; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES; NATIVE FISHES;

CONSERVATION; MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION; WATERSHEDS;

FISH;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; NATIVE SPECIES; PRIORITIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; CATOSTOMUS CLARKII; CATOSTOMUS INSIGNIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GILA INTERMEDIA; MEDA FULGIDA; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS GILAE APACHE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; FISHES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

GILA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMUS CLARKII; CATOSTOMUS INSIGNIS; GILA INTERMEDIA; MEDA; MEDA FULGIDA; ONCORHYNCHUS GILAE APACHE; PISCES; XYRAUCHEN; XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS;

EID: 84879498866     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-0013-5     Document Type: Article

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