Plantation clearcut size and the persistence of early-successional wildlife populations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1577-1584

  Acuña, M Paz ^a   Estades, Cristián F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Clearcutting; Ephemeral habitat; Individual Based Model; Metapopulation persistence; Patch size

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLEARCUTTING; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT MOSAIC; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; PATCH SIZE; PERSISTENCE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RELOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79956205649     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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