The role of scale in designing protected area systems to conserve poorly known species

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Kendall, Bruce E ^a   Klein, Carissa J ^b   Possingham, Hugh P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Protected area design; Reserve configuration; Spatial sampling; Species distributions; Unmapped species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948977838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES15-00346.1     Document Type: Article

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