Scale-sensitive landscape complementation determines habitat suitability for a territorial generalist

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 345-353

  Mueller, Thomas ^a,b,c   Selva, Nuria ^d   Pugacewicz, Eugeniuz ^e   Prins, Erik ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^e PRINS Engineering ^*  (Poland)

^f PRINS Engineering   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; UNGULATE; WOODLAND;

CORVUS CORAX; UNGULATA;

EID: 66349088526     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05694.x     Document Type: Article

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