Predicting broad-scale occurrences of vertebrates in patchy landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-74

  Boone, Randall B ^a,b   Krohn, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Heterogeneous landscapes; Patch occupancy; Predicted distributions; Ranges; Species model assessment; Species richness; Species habitat associations; Sprawl

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0033959651     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008169411935     Document Type: Article

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