A simple landscape design framework for biodiversity conservation

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-27

  Gagné, Sara A ^a   Eigenbrod, Felix ^b   Bert, Daniel G ^c   Cunnington, Glenn M ^c   Olson, Leif T ^d   Smith, Adam C ^e   Fahrig, Lenore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d O2 Planning+Design   (Canada)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Human dominated landscapes; Integrated landscape management; Land use and land cover change; Land use planning; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; HUMAN-DOMINATED LANDSCAPES; INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENTS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

LAND USE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISTURBANCE; GUIDELINE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EID: 84917690992     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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