Structural complexity in riverine and terrestrial habitat networks affects population abundance and diversity

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2578-2584

  Webb, J A ^a   Padgham, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Complexity; Dendritic ecological network (DEN); Diversity; Landscape structure; Lattice network; Population

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPLEXITY; DIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; POPULATION;

DIRECTED GRAPHS; FORESTRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84858844337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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