The role of reserves and anthropogenic habitats for functional connectivity and resilience of ephemeral wetlands

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1569-1582

  Uden, Daniel R ^a   Hellman, Michelle L ^a   Angeler, David G ^b   Allen, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anurans; Clustering; Functional connectivity; Graph theory; Irrigation; Modularity; Protected Areas as Socioecological Systems; Rainwater Basin, Nebraska, USA; Resilience; Restoration; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PERSISTENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WETLAND;

NEBRASKA; RAINWATER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ANURA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; NEBRASKA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; NEBRASKA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84907985992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1755.1     Document Type: Article

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