Under the radar: Mitigating enigmatic ecological impacts

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 635-644

  Raiter, Keren G ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^b,c   Prober, Suzanne M ^d   Hobbs, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptic impacts; Cumulative impacts; Ecological impact evaluations; Offsite impacts; Secondary impacts; Synergistic impacts

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FACILITATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFT; RADAR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; METHODS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84908258295     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.003     Document Type: Review

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