Systematic site selection for multispecies monitoring networks

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1305-1316

  Carvalho, Silvia B ^a   Gonçalves, João ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^b   Honrado, João P ^a,c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

environmental stratification; field survey effort; Marxan; monitoring networks; multispecies; species distribution models; species trends; systematic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DESIGN METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD SURVEY; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; STRATIFICATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84940727182     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12505     Document Type: Article

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