Development of a grassland integrity index based on breeding bird assemblages

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 125-145

  Coppedge, Bryan R ^a   Engle, David M ^a   Masters, Ronald E ^b   Gregory, Mark S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian assemblages; Conservation Reserve Program; Fragmentation; Grasslands; Juniper; Landscape pattern; Oklahoma; Response guilds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY; BREEDING BIRD ASSEMBLAGES; GRASSLAND DISTURBANCE INDEX (GDI); GRASSLAND INTEGRITY INDEX (GII);

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MONITORING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIRD; BREEDING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; PRAIRIE; RESEARCH PROGRAM; VEGETATION COVER;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORAGING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NESTING; POPULATION MIGRATION; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JUNIPERUS; OKLAHOMA; POACEAE; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 33748182362     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-1237-8     Document Type: Article

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