Evaluating the potential impact of a gas pipeline on whimbrel breeding habitat in the outer Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories;Évaluation de l'impact potentiel d'un gazoduc sur l'habitat de nidification du courlis corlieu dans la partie externe du delta du Mackenzie, Territoires du Nord-Ouest

Avian Conservation and Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 4-

  Pirie, Lisa D ^a   Francis, Charles M ^a   Johnston, Victoria H ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding ecology; Breeding habitat; Gas pipeline; IKONOS; Numenius phaeopus; Predictive habitat modeling; Remote sensing; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS;

EID: 75649096697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17126568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ACE-00298-040202     Document Type: Article

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