Finding the missing link between landscape structure and population dynamics: A spatially explicit perspective

American Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 605-627

  Wiegand, Thorsten ^a   Moloney, Kirk A ^b   Naves, Javier ^c   Knauer, Felix ^d  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d Munich Wildlife Society   (Germany)

Author keywords

Habitat connectivity; Heterogeneous landscapes; Population dynamics; Scale dependent landscape indices; Source sink dynamics; Spatially explicit population models

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

EID: 0033370936     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303272     Document Type: Article

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