Assessing changes in habitat quality due to land use changes in the spur-thighed tortoise Testudo graeca using hierarchical predictive habitat models

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-331

  Anadon J D ^a   Gimenez A ^a   Martinez M ^b   Palazon J A ^b   Esteve, M A ^b  

^a Dpto de Biología Aplicada   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Habitat quality; Hierarchy; Landscape; Species distribution models; Testudo graeca

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LITHOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; TURTLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

TESTUDO GRAECA;

EID: 34247332189     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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