Multistate modeling of habitat dynamics: Factors affecting Florida scrub transition probabilities

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3354-3364

  Breininger, David R ^a,b   Nichols, James D ^c   Duncan, Brean W ^a,b   Stolen, Eric D ^a   Carter, Geoffrey M ^a   Hunt, Danny K ^a   Drese, John H ^a  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelocoma coerulescens; Capture recapture; Disturbance; Fire; Florida Scrub Jay; Kennedy space center merritt island national wildlife refuge, Florida, USA; Land cover; Multistate models; Patch dynamics; Restoration; Scrub

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND COVER; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PATCH DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SCRUB;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRDS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; KENNEDY SPACE CENTER; MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS;

EID: 78249276224     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0964.1     Document Type: Article

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