Generalizability of songbird habitat models in boreal mixedwood forests of Alberta

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 191-201

  Vernier, Pierre R ^a   Schmiegelow, Fiona K A ^b   Hannon, Susan ^b   Cumming, Steve G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Calibration; Discrimination; Goodness of fit; H L statistic; Internal and external validation; Logistic regression; ROC area; Songbirds; Species occurrence models

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE MODELS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENERALIST; HABITAT; LOGISTICS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CALIBRATION; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CALLING LAKE; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PASSERI;

EID: 37549016805     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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