Modeling regional-scale habitat of forest birds when land management guidelines are needed but information is limited

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1759-1769

  Beaudry, Frederic ^a   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Howe, Robert W ^b   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Bartelt, Gerald A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad spatial scale; Conservation planning; Forest birds; Habitat models; Nested habitat elements; Partners in Flight; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; EXTINCTION RISK; FLIGHT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NESTEDNESS; RAPTOR; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77954814266     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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