Intermediate landscape disturbance maximizes metapopulation density

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1341-1350

  Kun, Ádám ^a,b   Oborny, Beáta ^b   Dieckmann, Ulf ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Dynamic landscapes; Environmental heterogeneity; Habitat fragmentation; Percolation

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; LATTICE DYNAMICS; LOCAL EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; PERCOLATION;

EID: 76349112734     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9386-0     Document Type: Article

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