Effectiveness of biodiversity surrogates for conservation
planning: different measures of effectiveness generate a
kaleidoscope of variation Grantham, Hedley S., Pressey, Robert
L., Wells, Jessie A., and Beattie, Andrew J. (2010)
Effectiveness of biodiversity surrogates for conservation
planning: different measures of effectiveness generate a
kaleidoscope of variation. PLoS ONE, 5 (7). pp. 1-12. |PDF
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planners represent many aspects of biodiversity by using
surrogates with spatial distributions readily observed or
quantified, but tests of their effectiveness have produced
varied and conflicting results. We identified four factors
likely to have a strong influence on the apparent effectiveness
of surrogates: (1) the choice of surrogate; (2) differences
among study regions, which might be large and unquantified (3)
the test method, that is,