Using connectivity metrics in conservation planning - When does habitat quality matter?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 602-612

  Visconti, Piero ^a   Elkin, Ché ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Conservation planning; Dispersal; Graph theory; Habitat quality; Metapopulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; GROWTH MODELING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67149088601     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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