525-538 Trends in agricultural impact and recovery of wetlands in prairie Canada

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 525-538

  Bartzen, Blake A ^a,b   Dufour, Kevin W ^b   Clark, Robert G ^a,b   Dale Caswell, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Covariates; Impact rates; Multistate models; Prairie canada; Recovery rates; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX METHOD; POND; PRAIRIE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION TYPE; WATERFOWL; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

CANADA;

ANATIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

EID: 77950175029     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1650.1     Document Type: Article

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