Matrix Matters: Differences of Grand Skink Metapopulation Parameters in Native Tussock Grasslands and Exotic Pasture Grasslands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Gebauer, Konstanze ^a   Dickinson, Katharine J M ^a   Whigham, Peter A ^a   Seddon, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT PATCHINESS; LIZARD; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSOMA GRANDE; PASTURELAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; NEW ZEALAND; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84884860868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076076     Document Type: Article

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