1. Preface

   • Sahotra Sarkar

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - iv

2. Operationalizing biodiversity for conservation planning

   • Sahotra Sarkar
   • Chris Margules

   Articles Pages: 299 - 308

3. Representing biodiversity: Data and procedures for identifying priority areas for conservation

   • C. R. Margules
   • R. L. Pressey
   • P. H. Williams

   Articles Pages: 309 - 326

4. Data requirements and data sources for biodiversity priority area selection

   • P. H. Williams
   • C. R. Margules
   • D. W. Hilbert

   Articles Pages: 327 - 338

5. Place prioritization for biodiversity content

   • Sahotra Sarkar
   • Anshu Aggarwal
   • Juliane Zeidler

   Articles Pages: 339 - 346

6. Birds as surrogates for biodiversity: An analysis of a data set from southern Québec

   • Justin Garson
   • Anshu Aggarwal
   • Sahotra Sarkar

   Articles Pages: 347 - 360

7. Persistence and vulnerability: Retaining biodiversity in the landscape and in protected areas

   • K. J. Gaston
   • R. L. Pressey
   • C. R. Margules

   Articles Pages: 361 - 384

8. Bet-hedging applications for conservation

   • Mark S. Boyce
   • Eileen M. Kirsch
   • Christopher Servheen

   Articles Pages: 385 - 392

9. The role of trade-offs in biodiversity conservation planning: Linking local management, regional planning and global conservation efforts

   • Daniel P. Faith
   • P. A. Walker

   Articles Pages: 393 - 407

10. Choosing appropriate temporal and spatial scales for ecological restoration

    • J. Baird Callicott

    Articles Pages: 409 - 420

11. The principle of complementarity in the design of reserve networks to conserve biodiversity: A preliminary history

    • James Justus
    • Sahotra Sarkar

    Articles Pages: 421 - 435