Is landscape connectivity a dependent or independent variable?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 687-699

  Goodwin, Brett J ^a,b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical vs. Modeling; Landscape connectivity; Landscape structure; Measures of connectivity; Movement behaviour; Research needs

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0347531699     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000004184.03500.a8     Document Type: Article

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