A controlled, hierarchical study of habitat fragmentation: Responses at the individual, patch, and landscape scale

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-389

  Bowers, Michael A ^a   Dooley Jr , James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological model system; Ecological scaling; Edge habitat; Experimentation; Fragment; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape; Microtus

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SCALE EFFECT;

MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS;

EID: 0032841166     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008014426117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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