Predicting impacts of future human population growth and development on occupancy rates of forest-dependent birds

Biological Conservation

Volumn 170, Issue , 2014, Pages 311-320

  Brown, Michelle L ^a   Donovan, Therese M ^a   Schwenk, W Scott ^a,c   Theobald, David M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative   (United States)

^d Conservation Science Partners Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Forest ecosystem; Forest dependent birds; Human population growth; Land use change modeling; Occupancy modeling

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROTECTED AREA;

MASSACHUSETTS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

AVES; CATHARUS GUTTATUS; PICOIDES VILLOSUS; SEIURUS;

EID: 84896723968     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.039     Document Type: Article

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