Scale-dependent habitat use in three species of prairie wetland birds

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-276

  Naugle, David E ^a,c   Higgins, Kenneth F ^a   Nusser, Sarah M ^b   Johnson, W Carter ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape structure; Matrix; Patches; Prairie wetland birds; Scale; South Dakota

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SCALE EFFECT; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

CHLIDONIAS NIGER; PODILYMBUS PODICEPS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0032797483     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008088429081     Document Type: Article

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