Application of least-cost path model to identify a giant panda dispersal corridor network after the Wenchuan earthquake-Case study of Wolong Nature Reserve in China

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 944-952

  Li, Hailong ^a   Li, Dihua ^a   Li, Ting ^a   Qiao, Qing ^a   Yang, Jian ^b   Zhang, Hemin ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda   (China)

Author keywords

Giant panda; GIS; Least cost path; Nature reserve; Wildlife corridor

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; COMBINED STRESS; DISPERSAL CORRIDORS; GIANT PANDA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SUITABILITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LEAST-COST PATHS; MANAGEMENT EFFORTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NATURE RESERVES; SUITABLE HABITAT; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WOLONG NATURE RESERVE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; COSTS; EARTHQUAKES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGY;

BEAR; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GIS; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION ROUTE; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURE RESERVE; PATH ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WOLONG NATURE RESERVE;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 75749136971     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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