A GIS modeling method applied to predicting forest songbird habitat

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 152-163

  Dettmers, Randy ^a,b   Bart, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic variables; Cerulean Warbler; Cumulative distribution function; Forest songbirds; GIS; Microhabitat preferences; Moisture gradients; Presence data; Scarlet Tanager; Spatially explicit habitat models; Topography; Wood Thrush

Indexed keywords

BIRD; GIS; HABITAT USE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA CERULEA; HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA; PASSERI; PIRANGA OLIVACEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033082078     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0152:AGMMAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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