Patchy reaction-diffusion and population abundance: The relative importance of habitat amount and arrangement

American Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-56

  Flather, Curtis H ^a   Bevers, Michael ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Persistence threshold; Spatially explicit population model; Structured landscapes

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 0036147371     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324120     Document Type: Article

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