Evaluating protected area effectiveness using bird lists in the Australian Wet Tropics

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 368-378

  Barnes, Megan ^a   Szabo, Judit K ^b   Morris, William K ^a,c   Possingham, Hugh ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australian Wet Tropics; Birds; Citizen science; Conservation evaluation; Impact evaluation; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTECTED AREA; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AVES;

EID: 84924052942     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12274     Document Type: Article

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