Conservation plans are usually developed for regions that encompass only one
environmental realm (terrestrial, freshwater or marine) because of logistical, institutional and …

A generic framework for setting conservation priorities based on the principles of classic
decision theory is provided. This framework encapsulates the key elements of any problem …

Forestry has contributed many problems to the Operations Research (OR) community. At the
same time, OR has developed many models and solution methods for use in forestry. In this …

The rapid growth of cities around the world is now seen as a major contributor to global
biodiversity loss and many governments include biodiversity conservation as an explicit …

Land and natural resource conservation programs are increasingly being evaluated on the
basis of their return on investment (ROI). Conservation ROI analysis quantitatively measures …

On-ground natural resource management actions such as revegetation and remnant
vegetation management can simultaneously affect multiple objectives including land, water …

In some agricultural regions, reservation of remnant natural lands will not maintain the
natural biodiversity and large-scale ecological restoration is required. Geographic planning …

Many landscapes that straddle the rural/urban divide suffer from low levels of species
diversity following extensive clearing and fragmentation of native vegetation communities …

Modern tools for cost-effective conservation reserve site planning require the planner to
have information about spatial distributions of conservation costs and benefits. Climate …

We evaluated how changes in nutrient supply altered the composition of epiphytic and
benthic microalgal communities in a Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) bed in Florida Bay …