Within-patch habitat quality determines the resilience of specialist species in fragmented landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-147

  Ye, Xinping ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Wang, Tiejun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Dynamic landscape; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat heterogeneity; Habitat quality; Species specialisation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIALIST;

EID: 84872666872     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9826-0     Document Type: Article

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