Effective dispersal rate is a function of habitat size and corridor shape: Mechanistic formulation of a two-patch compartment model for spatially continuous systems

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1712-1720

  Wakano, Joe Yuichiro ^a   Ikeda, Kota ^a   Miki, Takeshi ^b   Mimura, Masayasu ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DISPERSAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80055083815     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19074.x     Document Type: Article

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