Functional heterogeneity of forest landscapes and the distribution and abundance of the red-cockaded woodpecker

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 271-283

  Azevedo, João C M ^a   Jack, Steven B ^b   Coulson, Robert N ^c   Wunneburger, Douglas F ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal movements; Forest management; Functional heterogeneity; GIS; RCW; Red cockaded woodpecker; Spatially explicit analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034159897     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00136-X     Document Type: Article

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