Describing avifaunal richness with functional and structural bioindicators derived from advanced airborne remotely sensed data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2689-2713

  Jones, Trevor G ^a   Arcese, Peter ^a   Sharma, Tara ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIOMARKERS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENERALIST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RADAR;

AVES;

EID: 84875830523     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.750019     Document Type: Article

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