Assessing landscape relationships for habitat generalists

Ecoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-36

  Stewart, Abbie ^a,b   Komers, Petr E ^a   Bender, Darren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensation; Complementation; Fragmentation; Habitat amount; Landscape context; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPENSATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEER; FECAL PELLET; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ALCES ALCES;

EID: 77951018372     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/17-1-3284     Document Type: Article

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