Using satellite and airborne LiDAR to model woodpecker habitat occupancy at the landscape scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Vierling, Lee A ^a   Vierling, Kerri T ^a   Adam, Patrick ^a   Hudak, Andrew T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING MODEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIRD; CANOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORAGING; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; NONHUMAN; RED NAPED SAPSUCKER; REMOTE SENSING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VALIDITY; WILDLIFE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; IDAHO; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84891932094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080988     Document Type: Article

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