Restoring Beaches for Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus): A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis of Nest-Site Selection

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 201, 2011, Pages 194-203

  Maslo, Brooke ^a   Handel, Steven N ^a   Pover, Todd ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach nourishment; Beach stabilization; CART; Habitat restoration; Piping plover; Wildlife habitat relationships

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHM; BEACH NOURISHMENT; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HABITAT RESTORATION; NEST SITE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; THRESHOLD; WADER;

CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIUS MELODUS;

EID: 79952217188     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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