Enhancing the area-isolation paradigm: Habitat heterogeneity and metapopulation dynamics of a rare wetland mammal

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1708-1722

  Schooley, Robert L ^a,b   Branch, Lyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Florida; Connectivity; Cost Distance modeling; Dispersal; Extinction; Habitat heterogeneity; Matrix; Metapopulation; Neofiber alleni; Patch occupancy; Round tailed muskrat; USA; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE; MAMMAL; MATRIX; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RARE SPECIES; SURVEYING; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLANDS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BOS; MAMMALIA; NEOFIBER; NEOFIBER ALLENI; ONDATRA; PANICUM HEMITOMON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349306357     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2169.1     Document Type: Article

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