Modelling bird species richness with neural networks for forest landscape management in NE Spain;Modelización de la riqueza de aves mediante redes neuronales para la gestión forestal a escala de paisaje en el NE de España

Forest Systems

Volumn 19, Issue SPL.ISS., 2010, Pages 113-125

  Gil Tena, A ^a,b   Vega Garcia C ^a   Brotons, L ^b,c   Saura, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Zoologia   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fires; Forest biodiversity; Forest landscape composition and structure; Forest planning; Global change; Landscape diversity

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 80051933033     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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