Least-cost path length versus accumulated-cost as connectivity measures

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1223-1229

  Etherington, Thomas R ^a   Penelope Holland, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accumulated cost; Cost distance; Effective geographic distance; Friction; Functional distance; Irregular landscape graph; Least cost modelling; Regular landscape graph; Resistance

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84880762866     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9880-2     Document Type: Article

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