Models to distinguish effects of landscape patterns and human population pressures associated with species loss in Canadian national parks

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 773-786

  Wiersma, Yolanda F ^a   Nudds, Thomas D ^a   Rivard, Donald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Canadian Heritage   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Extirpations; GIS; Human population; Land cover; Land use; Landscape thresholds; Mammals; Minimum reserve area; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; NATIONAL PARK; RESERVE DESIGN;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 14644425407     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-3989-y     Document Type: Article

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