A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 517-527

  Betts, Matthew G ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^b   Hadley, Adam S ^a   Halstead, Katherine E ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^c   Robinson, W Douglas ^a   Wiens, John A ^d,e   Lindenmayer, David B ^f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84901695458     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00740     Document Type: Article

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