Habitat classification modeling with incomplete data: Pushing the habitat envelope

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1714-1726

  Zarnetske, Phoebe L ^a,c   Edwards Jr , Thomas C ^a   Moisen, Gretchen G ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accipiter gentilis atricapillus; Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA); Habitat classification model; Habitat envelope; Landfire; Management indicator species; Northern Goshawk; Pseudo absence

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BREEDING SEASON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; HABITAT TYPE; HOME RANGE; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAPTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITER GENTILIS ATRICAPILLUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES; UTAH;

EID: 38449123752     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1312.1     Document Type: Article

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