Rule-based models for evaluating mechanisms of distributional change

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 531-538

  Skelly, David K ^a,b   Meir, Eli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POND; SUCCESSION;

USA, MICHIGAN;

EID: 0030619942     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95415.x     Document Type: Article

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