Assessing the potential impacts of alternative landscape designs on amphibian population dynamics

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-81

  Rustigian, H L ^a,c   Santelmann, M V ^a   Schumaker, N H ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Amphibians; Future scenarios; Iowa; Landscape change; Population dynamics; Spatially explicit population model

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0037248037     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022936613275     Document Type: Article

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