Landscape patterns and dispersal success: Simulated population dynamics in the Brown Treecreeper

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1576-1587

  Cooper, Caren B ^a,c   Walters, Jeffrey R ^a   Priddy, Jeffery ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian woodlands; Brown Treecreeper; Climacteris picumnus; Cooperative breeder; Dispersal success; Habitat fragmentation; Individual based spatially explicit model; Isolation effects; Landscape patterns; Simulated population dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; ISOLATION EFFECT; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

AVES; CLIMACTERIS PICUMNUS; PASSERIFORMES; PICUMNUS;

EID: 0036994110     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1576:LPADSS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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