The importance of geology, climate and anthropogenic disturbances in shaping Boreal wetland and aquatic landscape types

Ecoscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 399-410

  Ménard, Sylvain ^a,b   Darveau, Marcel ^b,c,d   Imbeau, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b Canards Illimités Canada ^*  (Canada)

^c Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

aquatic birds; habitat management; habitat mapping; lake; pond; reservoir; wetland classification

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; LANDFORM; LANDSCAPE; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84901003765     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/20-4-3628     Document Type: Article

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