Measuring connectivity in habitat mosaics: The equivalence of two existing network indices and progress beyond them

Community Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-222

  Saura, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological flows; Graph theory; Landscape change; Landscape connectivity; Topological metrics

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; INDEX METHOD; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MOVEMENT; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 79951592493     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.11.2010.2.10     Document Type: Article

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