Detecting critical scales in fragmented landscapes

Ecology and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Keitt, Timothy H ^a,b   Urban, Dean L ^c   Milne, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Conservation in fragmented landscapes; Dispersal; Fragmentation; Habitat connectivity vs. dispersal distance; Landscape; Landscape graphs; Metapopulation; Percolation; Quantifying habitat connectivity at multiple scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249167622     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00015-010104     Document Type: Article

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