Clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits yields better planning outcomes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 191, Issue , 2015, Pages 716-727

  Evans, Megan C ^a   Tulloch, Ayesha I T ^a   Law, Elizabeth A ^b   Raiter, Keren G ^c,e   Possingham, Hugh P ^b,d   Wilson, Kerrie A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Condition; Conservation benefit; Conservation planning; Costs; Decision theory; Fire management; Marxan; Mortality function; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONDITIONALITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURROGATE METHOD; WEIBULL THEORY; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84940757294     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.08.023     Document Type: Article

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