Modeling patch occupancy by forest rodents: Incorporating detectability and spatial autocorrelation with hierarchically structured data

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 933-949

  Moore, Jeffrey E ^a   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectability; Forest rodents; Fragmentation; Hierarchical generalized linear model; Indiana; Occupancy; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RODENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WABASH BASIN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CRICETINAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS NIGER; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 27944478577     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[0933:MPOBFR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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