A demographic, spatially explicit patch occupancy model of metapopulation dynamics and persistence

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3149-3160

  Sutherland, C S ^a,c   Elston, D A ^b   Lambin, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Arvicola amphibius; False negative; Fragmentation; Hierarchical model; Migration; Site occupancy; Spatially realistic metapopulation theory; State space modeling; Stochastic patch occupancy model; Water vole

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; METAPOPULATION; PATCH SIZE; RODENT; STOCHASTICITY;

ARVICOLA; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI;

EID: 84911862133     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0384.1     Document Type: Article

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