Spatial prioritisation for conserving ecosystem services: comparing hotspots with heuristic optimisation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 431-450

  Schröter, Matthias ^a,b,c   Remme, Roy P ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hot spot; Mapping; Modelling; Overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955341398     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0258-5     Document Type: Article

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