Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 617-632

  Curran, Michael ^a   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a   Beck, Jan ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assemblage composition; Biodiversity; Ecological compensation; Habitat banking; No net loss; Offsets; Recovery; Rehabilitation; Restoration ecology; Secondary growth; Species similarity; Undersampling

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; META-ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODELING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; META ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903537497     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0243.1     Document Type: Article

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