Modeling the dynamic habitat and breeding population of Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1674-1686

  Hatten, James R ^a   Paxton, Eben H ^b   Sogge, Mark K ^b  

^a WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Dynamic riparian vegetation; GIS; Population dynamics; Predicted habitat; Reservoir management; Southwestern willow flycatcher; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAKES; MAPPING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

CHANGE DETECTION; PREDICTED HABITAT; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOUTHWESTERN WILLOW FLYCATCHER; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELDWORK; FLOODPLAIN; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PASSERINE; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRITORIALITY;

ARIZONA; ROOSEVELT LAKE [ARIZONA]; UNITED STATES;

EMPIDONAX TRAILLII; SALIX;

EID: 79953060965     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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