Landscape-level impact of tropical forest loss and fragmentation on bird occurrence in eastern Guatemala

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 512-526

  Cerezo, Alexis ^a,b   Perelman, Susana ^a,d   Robbins, Chandler S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation (FUNDAECO)   (Guatemala)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AIC; Autologistic regression; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape coherence; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NATURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; FOREST COVER; FOREST LOSS; GUATEMALA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT PATCHES; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; M-SCALE; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PREDICTIVE VARIABLES; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; TARGET SPECIES; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

ECOLOGY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BIRD; DISPERSAL; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TROPICAL FOREST;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

AVES;

EID: 72149097348     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.10.038     Document Type: Article

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