Graph models of habitat mosaics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-273

  Urban, Dean L ^a   Minor, Emily S ^b   Treml, Eric A ^c   Schick, Robert S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Conservation; Graph theory; Habitat; Landscape; Metapopulation; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION; METAPOPULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 60649112907     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01271.x     Document Type: Review

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