The IBP Survey of Conservation Sites: An Experimental Study

by Arthur Roy Clapham

The IBP, as a worldwide programme seeking to expand and co-ordinate biological research, needed to provide for the protection of sites and species for future scientific study. The IBP 'check-sheet' survey was therefore devised as a tool for gathering information, allowing areas to be evaluated on a comparative basis. In this was it was possible to examine the extent to which scientifically adequate samples of the main types of natural biological systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052127429X
• ISBN13: 9780521274296
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"