Modeling species' distributions to improve conservation in semiurban landscapes: Koala case study

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 449-459

  Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a,b,e   Wiegand, Thorsten ^b   McAlpine, Clive A ^a   Callaghan, John ^c   Lunney, Daniel ^d   Bowen, Michiala ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c Australian Koala Foundation   (Australia)

^d OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impacts; Conservation planning; Logistic regression; Mixed effects model; Natural habitat quality; Spatial distribution model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT QUALITY; MODELING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CITY PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; KOALA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHASCOLARCTIDAE;

PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 33644642459     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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