Breeding habitat selection by steppe birds in Castro Verde: A remote sensing and advanced statistics approach

Ardeola

Volumn 57, Issue SPEC. DECEMBER, 2010, Pages 93-116

  Leitã, Pedro J ^a,b   Moreira, Francisco ^b   Osborne, Patrick E ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat models; Habitat selection; Model inference; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Remote sensing; Steppe birds

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 79952140377     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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