Animal dispersal in fragmented habitat: Measuring habitat connectivity, corridor use, and dispersal mortality

Ecology and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Brooker, Lesley ^a   Brooker, Michael ^a   Cale, Peter ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal dispersal; Blue breasted Fairy wren; Dispersal model; Dispersal mortality; Fragmentation; Habitat connectivity; Malurus pulcherrimus; Pomatostomus superciliosus; Spatially explicit dispersal; Vegetation corridors; White browed Babbler

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249147751     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00109-030104     Document Type: Article

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