A variance-decomposition approach to investigating multiscale habitat associations

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-58

  Lawler, Joshua J ^a,b   Edwards Jr , Thomas C ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Logistic regression; Multicollinearity; Nest site; Scale; Statistical analysis; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

COLAPTES AURATUS; SPHYRAPICUS NUCHALIS;

EID: 32344433905     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[0047:AVATIM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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