Effects of landscape pattern on bird species distribution in the Mt. Lofty Ranges, South Australia

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 413-426

  Westphal, Michael I ^a,b   Field, S A ^b,c   Tyre, A J ^b   Paton, D ^c   Possingham, H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Australian birds; Fragmentation; Landscape metrics; Logistic regression; Receiver Operating Characteristic

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 0242404514     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026115807529     Document Type: Article

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