Limitations to Mapping Habitat Use Areas in Changing Landscapes Using the Mahalanobis Distance Statistic

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-322

  Knick, Steven T ^a   Rotenberry, John T ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black tailed jackrabbit; Geographical Information Systems; Habitat association; Landscape characteristics; Lepus californicus; Shrubsteppe; Spatial habitat modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LEPUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 0001466644     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400585     Document Type: Article

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