Evaluating the effects of habitat quality, connectivity, and catastrophes on a threatened species

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 854-865

  Root, Karen V ^a,b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelocoma coerulescens; Connectivity; Conservation; Epidemics; Florida Scrub Jay; Habitat quality; Habitat specialist; Population modeling; Population viability analysis; Quasiextinction; Spatially explicit metapopulation model

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS;

EID: 0031828639     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0854:ETEOHQ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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