Using Landsat images to map habitat availability for waterbirds in rice fields

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 684-694

  Toral, Gregorio M ^a   Aragonés, David ^a   Bustamante, Javier ^a   Figuerola, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Do ana; Shorebirds; Waterfowl; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROPPING PRACTICE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MUDFLAT; PADDY FIELD; PHENOLOGY; REFUGIUM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

ANATIDAE; AVES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 80052562483     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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