Estimating landscape resistance to dispersal

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1201-1211

  Graves, Tabitha ^a,b,c   Chandler, Richard B ^d   Royle, J Andrew ^d   Beier, Paul ^a   Kendall, Katherine C ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Connectivity; Corridor; Cost distance; Dispersal; Landscape permeability; Least cost path; Movement

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84904963343     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0056-5     Document Type: Article

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