Urban bird diversity and landscape complexity: Species-environment associations along a multiscale habitat gradient

Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Melles, Stephanie ^a   Glenn, Susan ^b   Martin, Kathyk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Gloucester County College   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird response to urbanization; Bird species diversity; British Columbia; Canonical correspondence analysis; Greater Vancouver; Local vs. landscape scales; Logistic regression; Sequential logistic regression; Site occurrence; Source habitat; Urban habitat gradient

Indexed keywords

AVES; CONIFERALES;

EID: 84879905495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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