The effectiveness of stand-level and landscape-level variables for explaining bird occurrence in an industrial forest

Forest Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 231-242

  Hagan, John M ^a   Meehan, Amy L ^a  

^a Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Brunswick   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; Forestry; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape; Microhabitat; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HABITAT VARIABLES;

FORESTRY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0036587199     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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