A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1332-1343

  Chazdon, Robin L ^a,b   Chao, Anne ^c   Colwell, Robert K ^a,b   Lin, Shang Yi ^c   Norden, Natalia ^a,d   Letcher, Susan G ^e   Clark, David B ^f   Finegan, Bryan ^g   Arroyo, J Pablo ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^e Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^g CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic species; Fidelity measures; Habitat preference; Habitat specificity; Indicator species; Indicator value; Multinomial model; Species classification; Species distribution; Succession

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; DATA SET; GENERALIST; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIALIST; SUCCESSION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

AUSTRALIA; COSTA RICA;

AVES;

EID: 79959870564     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1345.1     Document Type: Article

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