Key areas for conserving United States' biodiversity likely threatened by future land use change

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Martinuzzi, S ^a   Radeloff, V C ^a   Higgins, J V ^b   Helmers, D P ^a   Plantinga, A J ^c   Lewis, D J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Habitat loss; Land use land cover change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889633850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00376.1     Document Type: Article

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