Mapping and assessing spatial multiscale variations of birds associated with urban environments in metropolitan Taipei, Taiwan

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 209-226

  Lin, Yun Bin ^a   Lin, Yu Pin ^b   Fang, Wei Ta ^c  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; DEM; Land cover; Multivariate factorial kriging; NDVI; Principal component analysis; Species environment relationships

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DEM; LAND COVER; MULTIVARIATE FACTORIAL KRIGING; NDVI; SPECIES-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BIRD; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; KRIGING; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; NDVI; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KRIGING; LAND USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORDINATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAIWAN; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

AVES;

EID: 51749119899     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0030-7     Document Type: Article

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