The effect of habitat fragmentation on cyclic population dynamics: A reduction to ordinary differential equations

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 495-516

  Strohm, Shaun ^a   Tyson, Rebecca Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical patch size; Fragmentation; Ordinary differential equation; partial differential equation; Population cycles; Spatially implicit

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EQUATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867743843     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0141-1     Document Type: Article

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