The role of local populations within a landscape context: Defining and classifying sources and sinks

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 925-938

  Runge, Jonathan P ^a,c   Runge, Michael C ^b   Nichols, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emigration; Habitat management; Habitat quality; Population processes; Source sink; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33745683682     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503531     Document Type: Article

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