caa a22 4500 469074825 CHVBK 20180323132932.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02418944 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02418944 Regional habitat appraisals of wildlife communities: a landscape-level evaluation of a resource planning model using avian distribution data [Elektronische Daten] [Curtis Flather, Stephen Brady, Douglas Inkley] A simple regional habitat model founded on the relation between vertical habitat complexity and species richness has been used to describe wildlife habitat in response to macroscale patterns in land use and land cover. While the model has a basis in ecological theory, it has not been subjected to rigorous testing. We evaluated the model's fundamental assumption on landscapes in the eastern forested region of the United States and found the model to be supported when we used a measure of avian community integrity during the breeding season. The model was improved by incorporating measures of horizontal heterogeneity, indicating that the vertical and horizontal structure of habitats should be considered in analyzing the response of wildlife to land resource policies that can affect broad land use patterns. SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1992 avian community structure nationallicence diversity nationallicence habitat structure nationallicence resource planning model nationallicence spatial patterns nationallicence wildlife habitat nationallicence Flather Curtis USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut Brady Stephen USDA Soil Conservation Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut Inkley Douglas National Wildlife Federation, 20036, Washington, DC, USA aut Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1992-06-01), 137-147 0921-2973 7:2<137 1992 7 10980 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Flather Curtis USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brady Stephen USDA Soil Conservation Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Inkley Douglas National Wildlife Federation, 20036, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1992-06-01), 137-147 0921-2973 7:2<137 1992 7 10980 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer