Optimal Conservation Outcomes Require Both Restoration and Protection

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Possingham, Hugh P ^a,b   Bode, Michael ^c   Klein, Carissa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDSCAPE; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; TIME; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAGUAY; PROCEDURES; RAIN FOREST; STATISTICAL MODEL; WETLAND;

AVES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PARAGUAY; RAINFOREST; WETLANDS;

EID: 84922257819     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002052     Document Type: Article

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