Birds in depressional forested wetlands: Area and habitat requirements and model uncertainty

Wetlands

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-118

  Riffell, Samuel ^a   Burton, Thomas ^a,b   Murphy, Margaret ^a  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area relationships; Birds; Depressional deciduous forested wetlands; Habitat relationships; Kull back Leibler information; Michigan; Mixed models; Model selection; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION; WETLAND;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 33845781921     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[107:BIDFWA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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