Avian response to urbanization in the arid riparian context of Reno, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-101

  Trammell, E Jamie ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^a   Bassett, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Landscape context; NMS; Random forests; Recursive partitioning; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; DECISION TREES; RANDOM FORESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTIFICIAL HABITATS; CART; LANDSCAPE CONTEXT; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VEGETATION DIVERSITIES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID ENVIRONMENT; AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

NEVADA; RENO; TRUCKEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 79959805309     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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