Population connectivity: Recent advances and new perspectives

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-185

  Kool, Johnathan T ^a,b,e   Moilanen, Atte ^c   Treml, Eric A ^d,f  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dispersal; Management; Modeling; Population genetics; Review; Spatial ecology; Tracking

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; LITERATURE REVIEW; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873738378     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9819-z     Document Type: Article

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