A multiscale landscape approach to predicting bird and moth rarity hotspots in a threatened pitch pine-scrub oak community

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1063-1077

  Grand, Joanna ^a   Buonaccorsi, John ^a   Cushman, Samuel A ^a   Griffin, Curtice R ^a   Neel, Maile C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Hotspots; Indicator taxa; Logistic regression; Moths; Scale; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LEPIDOPTERA; PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS RIGIDA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILICIFOLIA;

EID: 4043097004     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00555.x     Document Type: Review

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