Subject: minimum set of areas

From: [email-masked] (Albert Sigurdsson)
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:30:45 +0300

Dear netters

I am working on a small project where I need to find a 'minimum set'
of areas having all the relevant species (66 rare species).  The data
is ready but I have yet to find an algorithm that allows me to do this
(e.g. in an Excel workspace).

Is there anyone out there willing and able to tell me what kind of
algoritms I need or refer me to the relevant literature where I can
find such algorithms ?

Thanks in advance,
        Albert S. Sigurdsson
        [email-masked]
        www.helsinki.fi/~sigurdss

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From: Stinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:36:00 -0400

An easy place for you to look would be in the recent volume from the
National Botanical Institute of South Africa on the conservation of the
Southern African Flora.  I think that Brian Huntley must be the editor
and it probably came out in 1994.  It was the first issue of STRELITZIA
a new series from the NBI. (my copy is on loan so I can't give the
details) It has at least two chapters giving exactly the thing you seem
to be seeking.

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