The montérégie connection: Linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Mitchell, Matthew G E ^a,b   Bennett, Elena M ^a,c   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a,d   Lechowicz, Martin J ^a   Rhemtulla, Jeanine M ^e   Cardille, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Vanderheyden, Kees ^f   Poirier Ghys, Geneviève ^f   Renard, Delphine ^a   Delmotte, Sylvestre ^a   Albert, Cécile H ^a,g   Rayfield, Bronwyn ^a   Dumitru, Maria ^a   Huang, Hsin Hui ^a   Larouche, Martine ^a   Liss, Kate N ^a   Maguire, Dorothy Y ^a   Martins, Kyle T ^a   Terrado, Marta ^a,h   Ziter, Carly ^a   Taliana, Lucie ^a   Dancose, Karine ^a   more..

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Centre de la Nature Mont Saint Hilaire   (Canada)

^g AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Landscape connectivity; Landscape structure; Mont r gie; Periurban; Qu bec; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PERIURBAN AREA;

CANADA; MONTEREGIE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84953288621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07927-200415     Document Type: Article

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