Using airborne laser scanning to model potential abundance and assemblages of forest passerines

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 671-681

  Müller, Jörg ^a   Moning, Christoph ^a   Bässler, Claus ^a   Heurich, Marco ^a   Brandl, Roland ^b  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Breeding birds; LiDAR; National park "Bavarian Forest"; Species abundance models; Temperate montane forest

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 67649963208     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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