Patch occupancy of north american mammals: Is patchiness in the eye of the beholder?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1259-1279

  Swihart, Robert K ^a   Atwood, Todd C ^b   Goheen, Jacob R ^c   Scheiman, Daniel M ^a   Munroe, Karen E ^d   Gehring, Thomas M ^e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Ecological scaling; Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Islands; Mountain tops; Nested subsets; Niche breadth; Stochastlcity; Woodlots

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; NESTEDNESS; PATCHINESS; STOCHASTICITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042734537     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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