What Are We Conserving? Establishing Multiscale Conservation Goals and Objectives in the Face of Global Threats

Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation: Moving from Perspectives to Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 494-510

  Scott, J Michael ^a   Tear, Timothy H ^a  

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Author keywords

Conservation assessments; Conservation goals; Conservation movement; Global threats; Scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889306196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692400.ch42     Document Type: Chapter

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