Estimating landscape carrying capacity through maximum clique analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2265-2276

  Donovan, Therese M ^a   Gregory S Warrington, ^b   Schwenk, W Scott ^a   Dinitz, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Bobcat; Graph theory; Landscape carrying capacity; Lynx rufus; Maximum clique; Occupancy modeling; Ovenbird; Resource utilization; Seirus aurocapillus

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; HABITAT TYPE; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING METHOD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PIXEL; RESOURCE USE; SONGBIRD; TERRITORY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; LYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; VERMONT;

UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

LYNX RUFUS; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS;

EID: 84871184059     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1804.1     Document Type: Article

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