Correlates of vernal pool occurrence in the Massachusetts, USA landscape

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 480-487

  Grant, Evan H Campbell ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Landform; Predictive model; Surficial geology; Topography; Vernal pool

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; POOL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749458648     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/22     Document Type: Article

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