Collaboration among countries in marine conservation can achieve substantial efficiencies

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1380-1393

  Mazor, Tessa ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a   Kark, Salit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross country collaboration; Efficient conservation; Mediterranean Sea; Opportunity cost; Spatial prioritization; Threatened vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FISHING EFFORT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MARINE PARK; PRIORITIZATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84885383438     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12095     Document Type: Article

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