Proximate and landscape factors influence grassland bird distributions

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1062-1075

  Cunningham, Mary Ann ^a   Johnson, Douglas H ^b  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grassland birds; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape features; North Dakota, USA; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUBLAND; WETLAND; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOLOGY; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; CISTOTHORUS PLATENSIS; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PHALAROPUS TRICOLOR; SPIZELLA PUSILLA;

EID: 33746007793     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1062:PALFIG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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