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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conservation-area networks | |
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| What do we mean by biodiversity? | |
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| Systematic conservation planning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Biodiversity surrogates | |
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| True and estimator surrogates | |
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| Establishing the adequacy of an estimator-surrogate set | |
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| Traditional species-based surrogates | |
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| Systematic surrogate sets | |
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| Surrogacy and spatial scale | |
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| A protocol for the identification of an adequate surrogate set | |
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| Diversity of ecological processes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Data collection | |
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| Areas and features | |
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| Sources of data | |
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| Collecting new data with field surveys | |
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| Summary | |
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| Data treatments | |
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| Conceptual framework | |
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| Multi-variate pattern analysis | |
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| Heuristic models | |
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| Regression models | |
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| Machine-learning methods | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conservation-area networks | |
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| The role of conservation-area networks | |
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| The goals of networks: representativeness, persistence and economy | |
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| Selecting networks: complementarity | |
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| Selecting networks: rarity and adjacency | |
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| Subsidiary goals: flexibility, transparency, modularity, genericity and irreplaceability | |
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| Algorithms for the selection of networks | |
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| The trouble with scoring and ranking procedures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Persistence and vulnerability | |
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| Incorporating biological processes | |
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| Viability analysis | |
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| Targets for representation | |
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| Formal decision analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Satisfying multiple criteria | |
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| Iterative- and terminal-stage procedures | |
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| The valuation framework | |
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| Non-dominated alternatives | |
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| Refining non-dominated sets | |
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| Sensitivity analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Systematic conservation plans | |
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| Complementarity by inspection in the Nullarbor region, Australia | |
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| Complementarity using species records in Quebec | |
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| A marine conservation plan for the California Channel Islands, United States | |
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| A conservation plan for the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa | |
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| A conservation plan for Papua New Guinea | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Coping with uncertainty | |
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| Practicing conservation science in a complex world | |
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| Future directions | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |