Assessing landscape functional connectivity in a forest carnivore using path selection functions

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1021-1036

  Carvalho, Filipe ^a,b   Carvalho, Rafael ^a   Mira, António ^a   Beja, Pedro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conditional logistic regression; Forest carnivores; Genetta genetta; Landscape conductance; Movement behaviour; Path level analysis; Road ecology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOTELEMETRY; CARNIVORE; CONNECTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT USE; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RIPARIAN FOREST; ROAD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PORTUGAL;

ANIMALIA; GENETTA GENETTA;

EID: 84964412518     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0326-x     Document Type: Article

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