Landscape effects on breeding songbird abundance in managed forests

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 836-857

  Lichstein, Jeremy W ^a,c   Simons, Theodore R ^a   Franzreb, Kathleen E ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Lab Invest Ecologicas las Yungas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Landscape composition; Landscape pattern; Managed forests; Neotropical migrants; Partial regression analysis; Songbirds; Southern Appalachians; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial autoregressive models

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 0036628260     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0836:LEOBSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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