Fish dispersal in fragmented landscapes: A modeling framework for quantifying the permeability of structural barriers

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1435-1445

  Pépino, Marc ^a   Rodríguez, Marco A ^a   Magnan, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Canada; Highway crossings; Laplace kernels; Laurentides wildlife reserve; Leptokurtic displacement; Mark recapture; Passage; Quebec; Road ecology; Salvelinus fontinalis; Sampling design; Simulation; Stream habitat connectivity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; PERMEABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SALMONID; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMWATER;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84864131459     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1866.1     Document Type: Article

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