Is there an optimum scale for predicting bird species' distribution in agricultural landscapes?

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-61

  Pelosi, Céline ^a,b   Bonthoux, Sébastien ^a,c   Castellarini, Fabiana ^a,d   Goulard, Michel ^a   Ladet, Sylvie ^a   Balent, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c UMR 7324 CNRS CITERES 33 35 allée Ferdinand de Lesseps   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Birds; Conservation; Forest index; Predictive models; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST COVER; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIRD; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FRANCE;

FRANCE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FORESTS; FRANCE;

EID: 84894053995     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.01.022     Document Type: Article

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