Independent effects of forest cover and fragmentation on the distribution of forest breeding birds

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 586-593

  Trzcinski, M Kurtis ^a,b   Fahrig, Lenore ^a   Merriam, Gray ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Bird distribution; Breeding Bird Atlas; Forest cover; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape pattern; Multiple logistic regression; Ontario; Quebec; SPANS GIS; UTM squares

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FOREST COVER; FRAGMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033135211     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0586:IEOFCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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