Comparing geographic boundaries in songbird demography data with vegetation boundaries: A new approach to evaluating habitat quality

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-521

  Hall, Kimberly R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Deer impacts; Dendroica caerulescens; Forest heterogeneity; Habitat quality; Spatially constrained clustering

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DETECTION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI;

EID: 55349130669     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0065-5     Document Type: Article

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