Appreciating ecological complexity: Habitat contours as a conceptual landscape model

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1245-1253

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Fazey, Ioan ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conceptual models; Fragmentation; Habitat contours; Habitat suitability maps; Landscape models; Patch matrix corridor model; Variegation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTOUR MAP; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 5344239645     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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