Associations of forest bird species richness with housing and landscape patterns across the USA

AM Pidgeon, VC Radeloff, CH Flather… - Ecological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In the United States, housing density has substantially increased in and adjacent to forests.
Our goal in this study was to identify how housing density and human populations are …

Edge responses of tropical and temperate birds

CA Lindell, SK Riffell, SA Kaiser, AL Battin… - The Wilson journal of …, 2007 - BioOne
Tropical birds may differ from temperate birds in their sensitivity to forest edges. We provide
predictions about the proportions of tropical and temperate species that should avoid or …

A raster-based technique for analysing habitat configuration: The cost–benefit approach

M Drielsma, S Ferrier, G Manion - Ecological Modelling, 2007 - Elsevier
Advances continue to be made in modelling the spatial pattern of habitat. However, for
models to be come more useful spatial pattern needs to be integrated with dynamic …

Influence of land use and climate on wetland breeding birds in the Prairie Pothole region of Canada

GM Forcey, GM Linz, WE Thogmartin… - Canadian Journal of …, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Bird populations are influenced by a variety of factors at both small and large scales that
range from the presence of suitable nesting habitat, predators, and food supplies to climate …

Multi-dimensional vegetation structure in modeling avian habitat

KM Bergen, AM Gilboy, DG Brown - Ecological Informatics, 2007 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to evaluate the contributions of forest and landscape structure
derived from remote sensing instruments to habitat mapping. Our empirical data focused at …

Preserving natural features: A GIS-based evaluation of a local open-space ordinance

JJ Taylor, DG Brown, L Larsen - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2007 - Elsevier
To study the influences of a local land-use policy on the preservation of natural features, two
sets of ten local-scale landscapes, divided in time by a land-use policy shift in Fenton …

A method for integrating the Breeding Bird Survey and Forest Inventory and Analysis databases to evaluate forest bird–habitat relationships at multiple spatial scales

TM Fearer, SP Prisley, DF Stauffer… - Forest Ecology and …, 2007 - Elsevier
The limited spatial scales of many bird–habitat studies restrict inference regarding large
scale bird–habitat relationships. A potential solution to this challenge is integrating the USFS …

Influence of forest fragmentation on the winter abundance of mammals in Mt. Chirisan National Park, South Korea

SJAE RHIM, WOOS LEE - The Journal of wildlife management, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the influence of both local habitat and landscape variables on mammal
species abundance in a forest fragmented by road construction and in continuous forest in 8 …

Does avian species richness in natural patch mosaics follow the forest fragmentation paradigm?

DC Pavlacky Jr, SH Anderson - Animal Conservation, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
As one approaches the north‐eastern limit of pinyon (Pinus spp.) juniper (Juniperus spp.)
vegetation on the Colorado Plateau, USA, woodland patches become increasingly disjunct …

[HTML][HTML] Local and landscape factor influences on avian community composition in playas of the Southern High Plains

JS Tsai - 2007 - tdl-ir.tdl.org
The more than 25,000 playas on the Southern High Plains (SHP) are essential to the
maintenance of regional biodiversity. The SHP landscape has been highly fragmented by …