Cheap and Nasty? The Potential Perils of Using Management Costs to Identify Global Conservation Priorities

• Erin McCreless ,

  * E-mail: emccrele@ucsc.edu (EM); R.J.Smith@kent.ac.uk (RJS)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Piero Visconti,

  Affiliations Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Global Mammal Assessment Program, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di, Roma, Rome, Italy

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• Josie Carwardine,

  Affiliation CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia

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• Chris Wilcox,

  Affiliation CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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• Robert J. Smith

  * E-mail: emccrele@ucsc.edu (EM); R.J.Smith@kent.ac.uk (RJS)

  Affiliation Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

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