Cross-sectional and temporal relationships between bird occupancy and vegetation cover at multiple spatial scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1275-1288

  Cunningham, Ross ^a   Lindenmayer, David ^a,b   Barton, Philip ^a   Ikin, Karen ^a   Crane, Mason ^a   Michael, Damian ^a   Okada, Sachiko ^a   Gibbons, Philip ^a   Stein, John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural environments; Southeastern Australia; Spatial scale; Temporal effects; Vegetation cover; Woodland birds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DATA SET; HABITAT USE; NESTING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907016442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0872.1     Document Type: Article

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