Macrohabitat models of occurrence for the threatened cheat mountain salamander, plethodon nettingi

Applied Herpetology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-224

  Dillard, Lester O ^a,b   Russell, Kevin R ^a   Ford, Mark W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheat mountain salamander; Classification tree; Discriminant function; Distribution; Endangered species; Gis; Habitat; Information theory; Landscape; Macrohabitat Models; Plethodon nettingi

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349173311     PISSN: 15707539     EISSN: 15707547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075408785911057     Document Type: Article

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