Landscape-scale impacts of transportation infrastructure on spatial dynamics of two vulnerable ungulate species in Ghamishloo Wildlife Refuge, Iran

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 6-14

  Makki, Toktam ^a   Fakheran, Sima ^a   Moradi, Hossein ^a   Iravani, Majid ^a   Senn, Josef ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa; Habitat fragmentation; HEP; Landscape metrics; Ovis orientalis isphahanica

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOMETRY;

GAZELLA SUBGUTTUROSA SUBGUTTUROSA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SUITABILITY INDEX; IMPACT ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN CHANGES; OVIS ORIENTALIS ISPHAHANICA; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOTORWAY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PROTECTED AREA; RED LIST; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; UNGULATE; VULNERABILITY;

ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; GHAMISHLOO WILDLIFE REFUGE; IRAN;

GAZELLA SUBGUTTUROSA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; UNGULATA;

EID: 84901917474     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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