The role of landscape-dependent disturbance and dispersal in metapopulation persistence

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 563-575

  Elkin, Ché M ^a   Possingham, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregated disturbance; Asymmetric dispersal; Metapopulation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 53149093205     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590962     Document Type: Article

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