An analysis of central Alpine capercaillie spring habitat at the forest stand scale

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 215, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 307-318

  Bollmann, Kurt ^a   Weibel, Patrick ^a,b   Graf, Roland F ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Alps; Forest stand description; Habitat model; Logistic regression; Model validation; Presence absence; Tetrao urogallus

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CENTRAL ALPS; FOREST STAND DESCRIPTION; HABITAT MODEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MODEL VALIDATION; PRESENCE-ABSENCE; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

FORESTRY;

HABITAT; MODELING; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

ERICACEAE; RUBUS; TETRAO UROGALLUS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 24944432569     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.05.019     Document Type: Article

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