How does habitat patch size affect animal movement? An experiment with darkling beetles

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2261-2270

  Mcintyre, Nancy E ^a,b   Wiens, John A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Darkling beetles; Eleodes obsoteta; Landscape ecolog; Micro landscape; Patch size; Scale; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; PATCH SIZE;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; ELCODES; ELCODES OBSOLETA; ELEODES; MARTES PENNANTI; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0032851775     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2261:HDHPSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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