Metapopulations in multifractal landscapes: On the role of spatial aggregation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1574, 2005, Pages 1815-1822

  Gamarra, Javier G P ^a,b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equilibrium population; Extinction threshold; Lacunarity; Landscape connectivity; Levins model; Neutral landscapes

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CONNECTIVITY; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT;

EID: 26244459623     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3135     Document Type: Article

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