The importance of integrating landscape ecology in habitat models: Isolation-driven occurrence of north island robins in a fragmented landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1363-1374

  Richard, Yvan ^a   Armstrong, Doug P ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dispersal; Habitat quality; Metapopulation; Patch isolation; Petroica longipes; Presence absence; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISPERSAL; FOREST CANOPY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; IMMIGRATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; JUVENILE; METAPOPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

PETROICA;

EID: 77956878285     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9488-8     Document Type: Article

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