Ecoregion-Based Conservation Planning in the Mediterranean: Dealing with Large-Scale Heterogeneity

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Giakoumi, Sylvaine ^a,b   Sini, Maria ^c   Gerovasileiou, Vasilis ^d   Mazor, Tessa ^b   Beher, Jutta ^b   Possingham, Hugh P ^b   Abdulla, Ameer ^b,e   Çinar, Melih Ertan ^f   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^g   Gucu, Ali Cemal ^h   Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^g   Rodic, Petra ⁱ   Panayotidis, Panayotis ^a   Taskin, Ergun ^j   Jaklin, Andrej ^k   Voultsiadou, Eleni ^d   Webster, Chloë ^l   Zenetos, Argyro ^a   Katsanevakis, Stelios ^m  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

^h MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ State Institute for Nature Protection   (Croatia)

^j CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^k RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^l The Network of Managers of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean   (France)

^m JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CAVE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALISMATIDAE; CAVES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEAWATER;

EID: 84885402994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076449     Document Type: Article

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