What size is a biologically relevant landscape?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 929-941

  Jackson, Heather Bird ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary behavior; Buffer; Edge mediated dispersal; Focal patch; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat selection; Informed dispersal; Landscape context; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BUFFER ZONE; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EDGE EFFECT; FECUNDITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 84864277432     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9757-9     Document Type: Article

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