The relative importance of landscape properties for woodland birds in agricultural environments

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 737-747

  Radford, James Q ^a   Bennett, Andrew F ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian variable selection; Farmland; Habitat configuration; Habitat extent; Hierarchical partitioning; Land mosaics; Landscape composition; Landscape level inference

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODELING; PATCH DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 34347404866     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01327.x     Document Type: Article

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