Wetland features and landscape context predict the risk of wetland habitat loss

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 968-982

  Gutzwiller, Kevin J ^a   Flather, Curtis H ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuarine and palustrine wetlands; Land conservation; Landscape context; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; National Resources Inventory; Policy and planning; Risk of wetland habitat conversion; Southern United States; Spatially explicit predictive model; Wetland protection

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; HERB; LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WETLANDS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955497259     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0202.1     Document Type: Article

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