Quantifying the spatial relationship between bird species' distributions and landscape feature boundaries in southern Ontario, Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1481-1493

  Polakowska, Aleksandra E ^a   Fortin, Marie Josée ^a   Couturier, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avian turnover; Boundary analysis; Ecotone; Land use change; Overlap spatial statistics; Passerines; Species' distributions

Indexed keywords

ECOTONE; KRIGING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE LOWLANDS;

AVES;

EID: 84868583275     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9804-6     Document Type: Article

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