Quantifying patch distribution at multiple spatial scales: Applications to wildlife-habitat models

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 869-882

  Johnson, Chris J ^a,c   Boyce, Mark S ^a   Mulders, Robert ^b   Gunn, Anne ^b   Gau, Rob J ^b   Dean Cluff, H ^b   Case, Ray L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Arctic; Habitat; Hierarchy; Landscape pattern; Local quadrat variance; Resource selection; Scale

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 14644393690     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-0246-2     Document Type: Article

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