A multi-scale analysis of species-environment relationships: Breeding birds in a pitch pine-scrub oak (Pinus rigida-Quercus ilicifolia) community

Biological Conservation

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-317

  Grand, Joanna ^a   Cushman, Samuel A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Landscape level; Pinus rigida Quercus ilicifolia; Spatial scale; Species environment relationships

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

MASSACHUSETTS; PLYMOUTH COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CAPRIMULGUS; CAPRIMULGUS VOCIFERUS; CAROLINENSIS; CARPODACUS; CARPODACUS PURPUREUS; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; MNIOTILTA VARIA; MYIARCHUS; MYIARCHUS CRINITUS; PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS RIGIDA; PIRANGA; PIRANGA OLIVACEA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILICIFOLIA; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS; TOXOSTOMA; TOXOSTOMA RUFUM; TYRANNUS; TYRANNUS TYRANNUS;

EID: 0037936551     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00323-3     Document Type: Article

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