How to define a patch: A spatial model for hierarchically delineating organism-specific habitat patches

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1131-1142

  Girvetz, Evan H ^a   Greco, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Ecological boundaries; Fractal landscapes; Functional connectivity; Hierarchical patch delineation; Landscape ecology; PatchMorph; Sacramento River

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PASSERINE; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

COCCYZUS AMERICANUS; COCCYZUS AMERICANUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 34548139396     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9104-8     Document Type: Article

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