Identifying corridors among large protected areas in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Travis Belote, R ^a   Dietz, Matthew S ^b   McRae, Brad H ^c   Theobald, David M ^d   McClure, Meredith L ^e   Hugh Irwin, G ^f   McKinley, Peter S ^g   Gage, Josh A ^h   Aplet, Gregory H ^b  

^a Wilderness Society Bozeman   (United States)

^b Wilderness Society Washington DC   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d Center for Large Landscape Conservation ^*  (United States)

^e Center for Large Landscape Conservation   (United States)

^f Wilderness Society   (United States)

^g Wilderness Society   (United States)

^h Gage Cartographics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MODEL; UNITED STATES; WILDERNESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISPERSAL; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977653901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154223     Document Type: Article

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