Toward conservation of Canada's boreal forest avifauna: Design and application of ecological models at continental extents;Conservation de l'avifaune de la forêt boréale au Canada: Élaboration et application de modèles écologiques à l'échelle continentale

Avian Conservation and Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Cumming, Steven G ^a   Lefevre, Kara L ^a   Bayne, Erin ^b   Fontaine, Trish ^b   Schmiegelow, Fiona K A ^b   Song, Samantha J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Breeding bird survey; Classification and regression trees; Conservation planning; Distance sampling; Habitat models; Land use; Migratory birds; Point counts; Population management; Scale; Species distributions; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 78651066275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17126568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ACE-00406-050208     Document Type: Article

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