Protected areas in a landscape dominated by logging - A connectivity analysis that integrates varying protection levels with competition-colonization tradeoffs

Biological Conservation

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 279-288

  Bergsten, Arvid ^a   Bodin, örjan ^a   Ecke, Frauke ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Disturbance; Fragmentation; Graph theory; Network; Planning; Protected area

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); METAPOPULATION; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIALIST; TRADE-OFF;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84875063514     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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