Evaluating Trade-Offs between Target Persistence Levels and Numbers of Species Conserved

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 51-57

  Di Fonzo, Martina M I ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,b   Probert, William J M ^a   Bennett, Joseph R ^a   Joseph, Liana N ^a,c   Tulloch, Ayesha I T ^a   O'Connor, Shaun ^d   Densem, Jodie ^e   Maloney, Richard F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^e NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Persistence; Prioritization; Resource allocation; Target setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958894022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12179     Document Type: Letter

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