Foray search: An effective systematic dispersal strategy in fragmented landscapes

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 905-915

  Conradt, L ^a,c   Zollner, P A ^b   Roper, T J ^c   Frank, K ^d   Thomas, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b USFS Forest Science Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonization dynamics; Dispersal behavior; Dispersal patterns; Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulation ecology

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037626604     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375298     Document Type: Article

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