Modeling broad-scale patterns of avian species richness across the Midwestern United States with measures of satellite image texture

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 140-150

  Culbert, Patrick D ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   St Louis, Véronique ^b   Flather, Curtis H ^c   Rittenhouse, Chadwick D ^a   Albright, Thomas P ^d   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Habitat structure; Landsat; Multiple linear regression; NLCD; Species richness; Texture

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSAT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NLCD; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TEXTURES;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; ECOREGION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; GUILD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TEXTURE;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 83455220873     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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