Guild-specific responses of avian species richness to LiDAR-derived habitat heterogeneity

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 72-83

  Weisberg, Peter J ^a   Dilts, Thomas E ^a   Becker, Miles E ^a   Young, Jock S ^b   Wong Kone, Diane C ^c   Newton, Wesley E ^d   Ammon, Elisabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Great Basin Bird Observatory   (United States)

^c Otis Bay Ecological Consultants   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity diversity; Hierarchical partitioning; Riparian; Scale dependence; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; LIDAR; NICHE PARTITIONING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84903641707     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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