Biodiversity, Urban Areas, and Agriculture: Locating Priority Ecoregions for Conservation

Urbanization and agriculture are two of the most important threats to biodiversity worldwide. The intensities of these land-use phenomena, however, as well as levels of biodiversity itself, differ widely among regions. Thus, there is a need to develop a quick but rigorous method of identifying where...

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Main Authors: Taylor Ricketts, Marc Imhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2003-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol8/iss2/art1/