Mind the gaps when using science to address conservation concerns

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2413-2427

  Habel, Jan Christian ^a   Gossner, Martin M ^a   Meyer, Sebastian T ^a   Eggermont, Hilde ^b,c   Lens, Luc ^c   Dengler, Jürgen ^d,e,f   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Disciplinary gap; Knowing doing gap; Knowlege Translation; Practice Oriented research; Thematic gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883287286     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0536-y     Document Type: Editorial

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