Spatio-temporal impacts of roads on the persistence of populations: Analytic and numerical approaches

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-265

  Borda de Água, Luís ^a   Navarro, Laetitia ^a   Gavinhos, Catarina ^b,c   Pereira, Henrique M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fences; Minimum patch size; Mitigation measures; Patch shape; Reaction diffusion equations; Road mortality; Skellam's model; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH SIZE; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; ROAD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 78751650353     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9546-2     Document Type: Article

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