Demographic network and multi-season occupancy modeling of Rana sylvatica reveal spatial and temporal patterns of population connectivity and persistence

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1601-1613

  Peterman, William E ^a   Rittenhouse, Tracy A G ^a,b   Earl, Julia E ^a,c   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Graph theory; Missouri; Ozark; Source sink dynamics; Spatially structured populations; Wood frog

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; EGG; FROG; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PERSISTENCE; POND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

ANURA; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 84884816046     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9906-9     Document Type: Article

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