Scaling local species-habitat relations to the larger landscape with a hierarchical spatial count model

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-75

  Thogmartin, Wayne E ^a   Knutson, Melinda G ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance map; Black billed cuckoo; Hierarchical model; Information theoretic model selection; Multi level model; Red headed woodpecker; Spatial count model; Wood thrush

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; COCCYZUS ERYTHROPTHALMUS; HYLOCICHLA; MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS;

EID: 33846416973     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9005-2     Document Type: Article

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