Spatiotemporal dynamics of prairie wetland networks: Power-law scaling and implications for conservation planning

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1924-1930

  Wright, Christopher K ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Complex networks; Conservation planning; Habitat fragmentation; Powerlaw scaling; Prairie pothole region; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; METAPOPULATION; POWER LAW; PRAIRIE; RANGE EXPANSION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; PROCEDURES;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH DAKOTA; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

PRAIRIE POTHOLE REGION;

EID: 77954614524     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0865.1     Document Type: Article

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