A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 538, Issue , 2015, Pages 1029-1038

  Lindenmayer, David ^a   Pierson, Jennifer ^a   Barton, Philip ^a   Beger, Maria ^b   Branquinho, Cristina ^c   Calhoun, Aram ^d   Caro, Tim ^e   Greig, Hamish ^d   Gross, John ^f   Heino, Jani ^g   Hunter, Malcolm ^d   Lane, Peter ^a   Longo, Catherine ^h   Martin, Kathy ⁱ   McDowell, William H ^j   Mellin, Camille ^k   Salo, Hanna ^l   Tulloch, Ayesha ^a   Westgate, Martin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^g FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^k AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Adaptive surrogacy framework; Decision making; Environmental management; Indicators; Proxies

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE SURROGACY FRAMEWORK; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PROXIES; SUB-DISCIPLINES; WIDE SPECTRUM;

DECISION MAKING;

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE SURROGACY FRAMEWORK; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84943581468     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.056     Document Type: Note

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