Valuation methods in vegetation and its use in land management

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2010 English Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:Acta Botanica Gallica, volume 157, pages 735-748 (issn: 1253-8078, eissn: 2166-3408,

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Authors: del Río, Sara; Herrero, Luis; Penas, Ángel;

doi: 10.1080/12538078.2010.10516244

handle: 10261/104751

Valuation methods in vegetation and its use in land management

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Abstract

The main methods for valuating vegetation proposed by different authors over the last three decades are summarized and discussed in this paper. As a result of this fact a new index for calculating the global conservation interest of the vegetation in a place or site is also proposed in this study. The index, based on the Cadiñanos & Meaza's proposals, includes new criteria and synphytosociological concepts and can be a very useful tool to be applied in land management and nature conservation studies.

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University of Leon
Spain

Keywords

Vegetation, Nature conservation, Land management, Índices, Valuation

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