Integrating the metapopulation and habitat paradigms for understanding broad-scale declines of species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1402-1410

  Armstrong, Doug P ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Habitat quality; Landscape ecology; Population dynamics; Spatial ecology; Species recovery

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 28344439196     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00117.x     Document Type: Review

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