Persistence of Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) lekking areas depends on forest cover and fine-grain fragmentation of boreal forest landscapes

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-29

  Sirkiä, Saija ^a,b   Helle, Pekka ^b   Lindén, Harto ^b   Nikula, Ari ^b   Norrdahl, Kai ^c   Suorsa, Petri ^d   Valkeajärvi, Pentti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d University of Turku ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LEK; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERSISTENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FINLAND;

TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 79953889905     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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