Occupancy of red-naped sapsuckers in a coniferous forest: Using LiDAR to understand effects of vegetation structure and disturbance

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 5383-5393

  Holbrook, Joseph D ^a   Vierling, Kerri T ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Hudak, Andrew T ^b   Adam, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Sphyrapicus nuchalis; Conifer forest; Discrete return LiDAR; Idaho; Information theoretic; Multimodel inference; Occupancy models; Woodpecker

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948081520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1768     Document Type: Article

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