Spatial overlap between environmental policy instruments and areas of high conservation value in forest.

In order to safeguard biodiversity in forest we need to know how forest policy instruments work. Here we use a nationwide network of 9400 plots in productive forest to analyze to what extent large-scale policy instruments, individually and together, target forest of high conservation value in Norway...

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Main Authors: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Gunnhild Søgaard, Graciela M Rusch, David N Barton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115001