Large-scale habitat corridors for biodiversity conservation: A forest corridor in Madagascar

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ramiadantsoa, Tanjona ^a,d   Ovaskainen, Otso ^a   Rybicki, Joel ^b,c   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LEMURIDAE; MADAGASCAR; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; PREDICTION; REPTILE; SIMULATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; GENE FLOW; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84941750055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132126     Document Type: Article

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