Influence of patch size and shape on occupancy by shrubland birds

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 268-278

  Shake, Corey S ^a   Moorman, Christopher E ^a   Ridd Le, Jason D ^b   Burchell, Michael R ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Area sensitive; Landscape; Occupancy modeling; Prairie Warbler; Shrubland birds; Yellow breasted Chat

Indexed keywords

AVES; DENDROICA DISCOLOR; GUIRACA; ICTERIA VIRENS; PASSERINA CAERULEA; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 84862290028     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110107     Document Type: Article

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