Thresholds in songbird occurrence in relation to landscape structure

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1046-1058

  Betts, Matthew G ^a,d   Forbes, Graham J ^b   Diamond, Antony W ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Greater Fundy Ecosystem Research Group   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest mosaic; Fragmentation; Landscape thresholds; Patch size; Segmented logistic regression; Songbirds; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEMOGRAPHY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH SIZE; PATCH USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 34447503549     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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