Landscape heterogeneity, connectivity, and critical landscapes for conservation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 27-39

  Malanson, George P ^a   Cramer, Barton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fragmentation; Percolation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE;

EID: 0032771302     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.1999.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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