Biodiversity trajectories and the time needed to achieve no net loss through averted-loss biodiversity offsets

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 352, Issue , 2017, Pages 54-57

  Buschke, Falko T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Extinction curves; Mitigation hierarchy; No net loss; Offsets; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; TRAJECTORIES;

BIODIVERSITY LOSS; EXTINCTION CURVES; MITIGATION HIERARCHY; NO NET LOSS; OFFSETS; PROTECTED AREAS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MITIGATION; PROTECTED AREA;

EID: 85015655718     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.021     Document Type: Article

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