Ranking habitat patches by contribution to network connectivity: Tradeoffs between processing time and spatial realisation

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1922-1928

  Cook, B ^a   Puotinen, M L ^b   Borah, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

GIS; Habitat connectivity; Networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; GRAPH THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONNECTIVITY MODEL; CONNECTIVITY PREDICTIONS; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HABITAT CONNECTIVITY; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

EID: 85086253883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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