Goldilocks and the Raster Grid: Selecting Scale when Evaluating Conservation Programs

Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino; Kathy Baylis; Jordi Honey-Rosés

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167945

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Goldilocks and the Raster Grid: Selecting Scale when Evaluating Conservation Programs

Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Kathy Baylis ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Jordi Honey-Rosés

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

* E-mail: jhoney@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0097-1811

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Goldilocks and the Raster Grid: Selecting Scale when Evaluating Conservation Programs

Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino,
Kathy Baylis,
Jordi Honey-Rosés

Published: December 22, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167945

About the Authors

Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kathy Baylis

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jordi Honey-Rosés

Contributed equally to this work with: Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey-Rosés

* E-mail: jhoney@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0097-1811

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KB JHR. Formal analysis: AFTA KB. Funding acquisition: KB. Methodology: AFTA KB. Visualization: AFTA. Writing – original draft: AFTA KB JHR. Writing – review & editing: AFTA KB JHR.

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