Interactions between habitat abundance and configuration: Experimental validation of some predictions from percolation theory

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 129-137

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCHINESS;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0033064667     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546577     Document Type: Article

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