Associations of forest bird species richness with housing and landscape patterns across the USA

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1989-2010

  Pidgeon, A M ^a   Radeloff, V C ^a   Flather, C H ^b   Lepczyk, C A ^a   Clayton, M K ^c   Hawbaker, T J ^a   Hammer, R B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Breeding bird survey (BBS); Estimated richness; Forest; Guilds; Housing; Human population; Landscape; National Land Cover Data (NLCD); U.S. Census; Woodland

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOREGION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GUILD; HOUSING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; HOUSING; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; HOUSING; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39049093877     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1489.1     Document Type: Article

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