Quantifying habitat impacts of natural gas infrastructure to facilitate biodiversity offsetting

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-90

  Jones, Isabel L ^a   Bull, Joseph W ^a   Milner Gulland, Eleanor J ^a   Esipov, Alexander V ^b   Suttle, Kenwyn B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Zoology Tashkent Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Compensation; Ecological impact assessment; Residual impact; Semi arid; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891597101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.884     Document Type: Article

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