Relative Importance of Nesting Habitat and Measures of Connectivity in Predicting the Occurrence of a Forest Songbird in Fragmented Landscapes

Theoretical and empirical studies suggest that well-connected networks of forest habitat facilitate animal movement and contribute to species' persistence and thereby the maintenance of biodiversity. Many structural and functional connectivity metrics have been proposed, e.g., distance to neare...

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Main Authors: Stephanie Melles, Marie-Josée Fortin, Debbie Badzinski, Kathryn Lindsay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-12-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol7/iss2/art3/