Response of avian communities in large-river floodplains to environmental variation at multiple scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1394-1410

  Miller, James R ^a,c   Dixon, Mark D ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest bird community; Habitat fragmentation; Historic land cover; Landscape metrics; Large river floodplain; Multivariate analyses; Spatial scale; Upper Midwest, USA; Variance partitioning; Wisconsin River

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN RIVER;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 6344231761     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5376     Document Type: Review

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