Connecting models to movements: testing connectivity model predictions against empirical migration and dispersal data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1419-1432

  McClure, Meredith L ^a,b   Hansen, Andrew J ^a   Inman, Robert M ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Large Landscape Conservation   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus; Circuit theory; Cost distance; Gulo gulo; Least cost path; Wildlife corridor

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEER; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT CORRIDOR; MIGRATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOVEMENT; MUSTELID; PREDICTION; WILD POPULATION;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; GULO GULO;

EID: 84959130373     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0347-0     Document Type: Article

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