Confronting collinearity: Comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1271-1285

  Smith, Adam C ^a   Koper, Nicola ^b   Francis, Charles M ^c   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AIC; Best model; Habitat fragmentation; Independent effects; Multi model inference; Step wise regression; Suppressor variables; Variance inflation factor

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODEL TEST; PREDICTION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 76349117456     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9383-3     Document Type: Article

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