Cross-scale correlations and the design and analysis of avian habitat selection studies

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-70

  Battin, James ^a   Lawler, Joshua J ^b  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification tree analysis; Collinearity; Correlation; Habitat selection; Hierarchy; Nest site selection; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

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EID: 32344439366     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[0059:CCATDA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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