Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis with bird populations as habitat-specific environmental indicators: Evidence from Canada

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 428-438

  Lantz, Van ^a   Martínez Espiñeira, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird population trends; Economic growth; Environmental indicators; Environmental Kuznets curve; Human population density

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HABITAT TYPE; KUZNETS CURVE; POPULATION DENSITY; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 41849143732     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00885.x     Document Type: Article

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