The boundary-quality penalty: A quantitative method for approximating species responses to fragmentation in reserve selection

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 355-364

  Moilanen, Atte ^a   Wintle, Brendan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary length; Connectivity; Edge effect; Fragmentation; Habitat model; Model averaging; Reserve selection; Site selection algorithm; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; METAPOPULATION; MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVE DESIGN; SOFTWARE; ZONATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 33947492467     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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