Planning for Biodiversity
- 27 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 279 (5359) , 2068-2069
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.279.5359.2068
Abstract
If we can only preserve some of the Earth9s land, how do we decide which bits to save to achieve preservation of the most species? Two reports in this issue of Science ( Ando et al. and van Jaarsveld et al.) and a policy commentary on conservation biology by Soulé and Sanjayan address this question by presenting new computational methods. In their commentary, Pimm and Lawton discuss the use of these algorithms for making conservation choices.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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