Modeling occupancy dynamics of a rare species, Franklin's ground squirrel, with limited data: Are simple connectivity metrics adequate?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1477-1490

  Duggan, Jennifer M ^a   Schooley, Robert L ^a   Heske, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost distance modeling; Incidence function model; Metapopulation; Midwestern USA; Nearest neighbor; Poliocitellus franklinii; Prairie; Spermophilus franklinii

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODELING; PRAIRIE; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

UNITED STATES;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS FRANKLINII;

EID: 80855137947     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9652-9     Document Type: Article

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