The effect of habitat patch connectivity on samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) metapopulation persistence

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 57-74

  Swart, Johan ^a   Lawes, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corridors; Dispersal; Metapopulation; Persistence; Primates; Stochastic spatial model

Indexed keywords

CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; CERCOPITHECUS;

CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCH; METAPOPULATION PERSISTENCE; MODELLING; SAMANGO MONKEY;

SOUTH AFRICA, KWAZULU-NATAL;

EID: 0030590761     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00211-1     Document Type: Article

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