Complementarity and Area-Efficiency in the Prioritization of the Global Protected Area Network.

Complementarity and cost-efficiency are widely used principles for protected area network design. Despite the wide use and robust theoretical underpinnings, their effects on the performance and patterns of priority areas are rarely studied in detail. Here we compare two approaches for identifying th...

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Main Authors: Peter Kullberg, Tuuli Toivonen, Federico Montesino Pouzols, Joona Lehtomäki, Enrico Di Minin, Atte Moilanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4683007?pdf=render