The effect of map boundary on estimates of landscape resistance to animal movement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Koen, Erin L ^a   Garroway, Colin J ^a   Wilson, Paul J ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MAP BOUNDARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE RESISTANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONTARIO;

EID: 77955626443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011785     Document Type: Article

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