An evaluation of patch connectivity measures

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1300-1310

  Prugh, Laura R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Fragmentation; Incidence function model; Isolation; Logistic regression; Meta analysis; Metapopulation dynamics; Model selection; Occupancy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRAGMENTATION; INVERTEBRATE; META-ANALYSIS; METAPOPULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILES;

AMPHIBIA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 68149136627     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1524.1     Document Type: Article

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