A framework for assessing the relative vulnerability of species to land-use change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 730-742

  Pereira, Henrique M ^a,b   Daily, Gretchen C ^a   Roughgarden, Joan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Allometric relationship; Avifauna; Costa Rica; Countryside biogeography; Critical patch size; KISS model; Natal dispersal; Population viability analysis; PVA; Reaction diffusion PDE

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; POTATO VIRUS A;

EID: 8144220685     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5405     Document Type: Article

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