Valuing dragonflies as service providers

Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Simaika, John P ^a   Samways, Michael J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dragonflies; Ecosystem service; Habitat; Indicator; Millenium ecosystem assessment; Odonata; Service providing unit; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919675173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230693.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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