Habitat selection of breeding riparian birds in an urban environment: Untangling the relative importance of biophysical elements and spatial scale

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 506-518

  Pennington, Derric N ^a,b   Blair, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b World Wildlife Fund US ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Conservation biogeography; Habitat selection; Heterogeneity; Landscape; Spatial scale; Urban

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRASS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 79953767725     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00750.x     Document Type: Article

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