Quantifying the relative contribution of an ecological reserve to conservation objectives

Evaluating the role public lands play in meeting conservation goals is an essential step in good governance. We present a tool for comparing the regional contribution of each of a suite of wildlife management units to conservation goals. We use weighted summation (simple additive weighting) to compu...

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Main Authors: Kevin Aagaard, James E. Lyons, Wayne E. Thogmartin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989416301391