Using nested connectivity models to resolve management conflicts of isolated water networks in the Sonoran Desert

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Drake, Joseph C ^a,b   Griffis Kyle, Kerry ^a   McIntyre, Nancy E ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchments; Circuit theory; Climate change impacts; Functional connectivity; Graph theory; Least cost paths; Network theory; Springs; Structural connectivity; Tinajas

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009968796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1652     Document Type: Article

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