Designing nature reserves in the face of uncertainty

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 470-475

  Mccarthy, Michael A ^a   Thompson, Colin J ^a   Moore, Alana L ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation reserves; Extinction risk; SLOSS; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749018     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01608.x     Document Type: Article

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