Should metapopulation restoration strategies increase patch area or number of patches?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 566-581

  Nicol, Samuel C ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Decision theory; Fleurieu peninsula; Metapopulation; Mount lofty ranges southern emu wren; Optimal management; Patch dynamics; Restoration; South australia; Stipiturus malachurus intermedius; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PASSERINE; PATCH USE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; FLEURIEU PENINSULA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

STIPITURUS MALACHURUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 77950155260     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2216.1     Document Type: Article

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