Old concepts, new challenges: adapting landscape-scale conservation to the twenty-first century

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 527-552

  Donaldson, Lynda ^a   Wilson, Robert J ^a   Maclean, Ilya M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation strategies; Habitat degradation; Habitat network; Island biogeography; Landscape ecology; Metapopulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVE DESIGN; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 85002335927     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1257-9     Document Type: Review

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