Multipurpose habitat networks for short-range and long-range connectivity: A new method combining graph and circuit connectivity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 222-231

  Rayfield, Bronwyn ^a   Pelletier, David ^b   Dumitru, Maria ^a   Cardille, Jeffrey A ^b   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

zonation; Circuitscape; Climate change; Connectivity conservation; Dispersal; Modelling; Protected areas; Spatial conservation planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958862996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12470     Document Type: Article

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