Conceptual domain of the matrix in fragmented landscapes

Driscoll, Don; Banks, Samuel; Barton, Philip; Lindenmayer, David; Smith, Annabel

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Conceptual domain of the matrix in fragmented landscapes

Date

2013

Authors

Driscoll, Don

Banks, Samuel

Barton, Philip

Lindenmayer, David

Smith, Annabel

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In extensively modified landscapes, how the matrix is managed determines many conservation outcomes. Recent publications revise popular conceptions of a homogeneous and static matrix, yet we still lack an adequate conceptual model of the matrix. Here, we