Using network theory to prioritize management in a desert bighorn sheep metapopulation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 605-619

  Creech, Tyler G ^a   Epps, Clinton W ^a   Monello, Ryan J ^b   Wehausen, John D ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Connectivity; Dispersal; Extinction; Fragmented population; Gene flow; Graph theory; Habitat patch; Landscape resistance

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DESERT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; METAPOPULATION; MITOCHONDRION; PATCH USE; PRIORITIZATION; SHEEP;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS NELSONI;

EID: 84898058390     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0016-0     Document Type: Article

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