Accuracy assessment of predictive models of grassland bird abundances in the Prairie Hardwood Transition Bird Conservation Region

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 747-755

  Murray, Les D ^a,c   Ribic, Christine A ^a   Thogmartin, Wayne E ^b   Knutson, Melinda G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance, accuracy; Evaluation; Grassland birds; Niche breadth; Predictive model; Validation

Indexed keywords

AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII; AVES;

EID: 67649653805     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8610     Document Type: Article

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