Network modularity reveals critical scales for connectivity in ecology and evolution

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fletcher, Robert J ^a   Revell, Andre ^a   Reichert, Brian E ^a   Kitchens, Wiley M ^a   Dixon, Jeremy D ^b   Austin, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENE FLOW; HUMAN; MARK RECAPTURE; METAPOPULATION; PHYSICS; SOCIOLOGY; SPECIES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BEAR; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BULLFROG; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; FALCONIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ARTICLE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FALCONIFORMES; GENE FLOW; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANA CATESBEIANA; URSIDAE;

EID: 84899610901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3572     Document Type: Article

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