A method for integrating the Breeding Bird Survey and Forest Inventory and Analysis databases to evaluate forest bird-habitat relationships at multiple spatial scales

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-143

  Fearer, Todd M ^a   Prisley, Stephen P ^a   Stauffer, Dean F ^a   Keyser, Patrick D ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird habitat modeling; Breeding Bird Survey; Forest breeding birds; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Landscape; Multiscale

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIRD HABITAT MODELING; BREEDING BIRD SURVEY; FOREST BREEDING BIRDS; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPES; MULTISCALES;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GUILD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NESTING; SUCCESSION; SURVEY;

BIRDS; DATA BASES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AVES;

EID: 34047247882     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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