Identifying keystone threats to biological diversity

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-32

  Baldwin, Robert F ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human activity; Keystone threat; Land use land cover; Modeling; Threats to biological diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892817283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9575-6_2     Document Type: Chapter

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