Model development for the assessment of terrestrial and aquatic habitat quality in conservation planning

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 540, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-70

  Terrado, Marta ^a   Sabater, Sergi ^a,b   Chaplin Kramer, Becky ^c   Mandle, Lisa ^c   Ziv, Guy ^d   Acuña, Vicenç ^a  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic threats; Biodiversity; Environmental management; Habitat quality; River basin; Scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC THREATS; AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; HABITAT QUALITY; RIVER BASINS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; VASCULAR PLANT RICHNESS;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS;

PHOSPHORUS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIVER BASIN; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VASCULAR PLANT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE; MICROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTION;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84945473518     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.064     Document Type: Article

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