Habitat fragmentation and extinction thresholds on fractal landscapes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-127

  Hill, Mark F ^a   Caswell, Hal ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Extinction threshold; Fractals; Habitat fragmentation; Patch occupancy model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033005458     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.22061.x     Document Type: Article

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