Designing effective reserve networks for nonequilibrium metacommunities

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1488-1503

  Gouhier, Tarik C ^a   Guichard, Frédéric ^b   Menge, Bruce A ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic resources; Metacommunities; Nonequilibrium; Patchiness; Reserve networks; Spatial management; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; GUIDELINE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE PARK; METAPOPULATION; PATCHINESS; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESERVE DESIGN; TRADE-OFF; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84883366253     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1801.1     Document Type: Article

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