Influence of separating home range and dispersal movements on characterizing corridors and effective distances

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2355-2366

  Blazquez Cabrera, Sandra ^a   Gastón, Aitor ^a   Beier, Paul ^b   Garrote, Germán ^c   Simón, Miguel Ángel ^c   Saura, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dispersal plasticity; Habitat preferences; Habitat suitability; Landscape resistance; Least cost paths; Lynx pardinus; Permeability; Resource selection

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; GPS; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; PERMEABILITY; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS;

EID: 84976883119     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0407-5     Document Type: Article

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