Modelling bird richness and bird species presence in a boreal forest reserve using airborne laser-scanning and aerial images

Bird Study

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 204-219

  Eldegard, Katrine ^a   Dirksen, John Wirkola ^a   Ørka, Hans Ole ^a   Halvorsen, Rune ^b   Næsset, Erik ^a   Gobakken, Terje ^a   Ohlson, Mikael ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; AVIFAUNA; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PASSERINE; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORWAY;

AVES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; SALIX; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84900010344     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.885492     Document Type: Article

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