Multi-species risk analysis, species evaluation and biodiversity conservation.

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Multi-species risk analysis, species evaluation and biodiversity conservation.

EXS - 1 Jan 1994

Witting L, McCarthy M A, Loeschcke V

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The multi-species conservation approaches starting from Vane-Wright et al. (1991) search for a biologically valid basis to evaluate biodiversity. Such evaluations can be used to optimize reserve boundaries so reserves contain a high level of biodiversity. However, these optimization procedures do...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Conservation of Natural Resources
Genetic Variation
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Phylogeny
Probability
Risk

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