Using habitat extent and composition to predict the occurrence of woodland birds in fragmented landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 329-341

  Polyakov, Maksym ^a   Rowles, Alexei D ^b,c   Radford, James Q ^d   Bennett, Andrew F ^e   Park, Geoff ^f   Roberts, Anna ^b   Pannell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Rutherglen ^*  (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f North Central Catchment Management Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape context; Patches; Probability of occurrence; Woodland birds

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PATCHINESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES;

EID: 84873729517     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9831-3     Document Type: Article

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