Conservation Priorities when Species Interact: The Noah's Ark Metaphor Revisited

Pierre Courtois, Charles Figuieres and Chloé Mulier

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 9, 1-8

Abstract: This note incorporates ecological interactions into the Noah's Ark problem. In doing so, we arrive at a general model for ranking in situ conservation projects accounting for species interrelations and provide an operational cost-effectiveness method for the selection of best preserving diversity projects under a limited budget constraint.

Date: 2014
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