Equitable Representation of Ecoregions is Slowly Improving Despite Strategic Planning Shortfalls

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 422-428

  Kuempel, Caitlin D ^a   Chauvenet, Alienor L M ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aichi Target 11; conservation planning; conservation targets; Convention on Biological Diversity; Gini coefficient; protected areas; protection equality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002045738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12298     Document Type: Letter

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