How complex do models need to be to predict dispersal of threatened species through matrix habitats?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1701-1710

  Hudgens, Brian R ^a   Morris, William F ^b   Haddad, Nick M ^c   Fields, William R ^c   Wilson, John W ^c   Kuefler, Daniel ^d   Jobe, Todd ^e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Connectivity; Dispersal; Habitat fragmentation; Matrix habitat; Neonympha mitchellii francisci; Restoration; Spatially explicit individual based simulation model

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; BUTTERFLY; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MATRIX; MOVEMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NEONYMPHA MITCHELLII; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84864116155     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1048.1     Document Type: Article

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