An empirical assessment and comparison of species-based and habitat-based surrogates: a case study of forest vertebrates and large old trees.

A holy grail of conservation is to find simple but reliable measures of environmental change to guide management. For example, particular species or particular habitat attributes are often used as proxies for the abundance or diversity of a subset of other taxa. However, the efficacy of such kinds o...

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Main Authors: David B Lindenmayer, Philip S Barton, Peter W Lane, Martin J Westgate, Lachlan McBurney, David Blair, Philip Gibbons, Gene E Likens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24587050/?tool=EBI