How well do consistently monitored Breeding Bird Survey routes represent the environments of the conterminous United States?

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 801-814

  Lawler, Joshua J ^a,b   O'Connor, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding Bird Survey; Elevation; Northeastern deciduous forests; Precipitation; Predictive models; Sampling; Species abundance

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 7744234746     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7472     Document Type: Article

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