Simple connectivity measures in spatial ecology

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1131-1145

  Moilanen, Atte ^a   Nieminen, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Buffer measure; Colonization; Connectivity; Incidence function model; Isolation; Melitaea cinxia; Metapopulation model; Nearest neighbor; Scolitantides orion

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; METAPOPULATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MELITAEA; MELITAEA CINXIA;

EID: 0013278806     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1131:SCMISE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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