Temporal and spatial variation in landscape connectivity for a freshwater turtle in a temporally dynamic wetland system

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1288-1299

  Roe, John H ^a,b   Brinton, Alicia C ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chelodina longicolhs; Drought; Eastern long necked turtle; Habitat quality; Inter patch movement; Metapopulation; Migration; Movement probability; Multistate model; Southeastern Australia; Survivorship; Wetland conservation

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; DROUGHT; FLOOD; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORSHIP; TURTLE; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROUGHT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TURTLE; WETLAND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DROUGHTS; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TURTLES; WETLANDS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CHELODINA; CHELODINA LONGICOLLIS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 68149175318     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0101.1     Document Type: Article

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