habitat quality
The status of red grouse in Ireland and the effects of land use, habitat and habitat quality on their distribution
... grouse habitat in Ireland, populations have persisted even in more isolated areas (Allen et ...suitable habitat or by leading to inferior habitat quality for grouse ...
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A residential habitat quality model for population health vulnerability assessment in Urban Nigeria
... residential habitat quality employed in the ...residential habitat quality scale using the Hierarchical Cluster ...neighborhood quality and the incidence of ...
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Evaluation of habitat quality for selected wildlife species associated with island back channels
... the habitat quality of an area for particular species is the use of Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models ...the Habitat Evaluation Proce- dures ...higher habitat quality for ...
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Morphological asymmetry and habitat quality: using fleas and their rodent hosts as a novel experimental system
... Morphological asymmetry is widely used to measure developmental instability and higher levels of asymmetry often correlate with decreased mating success, increased inbreeding, increased stress and decreased ...
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Habitat Quality for Stopover Migrants at Rushton Woods Preserve, Chester County, Pennsylvania
... be positively correlated with habitat quality (Johnson 2007). Second, we estimated rates of body mass change for a suite of migratory species in which at least 30 individuals were captured. Positive mass ...
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Palatability mapping: a koala’s eye view of spatial variation in habitat quality
... Mapping approaches such as the smoothed pheno- typic surfaces presented here (Fig. 5) allow the identification of phenotypic hotspots, where the inten- sity of the trees’ interactions with their herbivores may differ from ...
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Habitat quality assessment of Atlantic wet heathlands in Serra do Xistral, NW Spain
... According to the items described, a scoring system is proposed to integrate them into a single matrix. Heathland stands are evaluated for each item, thus final scores correspond to the number of items with an optimum ...
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Designing an environmental flow framework for impounded river systems through modelling of invertebrate habitat quality
... of habitat quality were supplemented by established ecological principles such as the importance of fl ow ...species habitat qualities of 23 – 26%, characteristics such as fl ow hetero- geneity were ...
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Modeling population dynamics of solitary bees in relation to habitat quality
... With this model, we described the impact of habitat quality on population dynamics of solitary bees with the help of a small set of relatively simple rules. Rules for ma- ternal investment are based on ...
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The importance of habitat quality for marine reserve fishery linkages
... of habitat quality to the fishery ...of habitat-quality improvements inside a marine reserve to fish productivity and fishery catch in adjacent fishing ...explicit ...
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Bumble bee species' responses to a targeted conservation measure depend on landscape context and habitat quality
... Our study suggests that bumble bee density on conservation flower mixtures is not directly related to the forager population of an area but represents the response of workers to high quality, abundant forage, ...
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Mapping habitat quality in conservation's neglected geography
... of habitat quality in their study ...of habitat quality was bolstered by a meta-analysis by Bock & Jones (2004) which found that areas with higher population density also had higher ...
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Seasonal and interannual effects of hypoxia on fish habitat quality in central Lake Erie
... on habitat quality under low, but still reasonable, levels of consumption, particularly for yellow ...itat quality reduction under hypoxia for some ...
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Landscape and habitat quality for proboscis monkeys: its variation in space and time, and use in management
... The quality of habitat not only affects primates’ behaviour (Chauhan & Pirta, 2010; McCarthy et ...to habitat fragmentation, habitat structure and anthropogenic disturbance are known to ...
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Reservoir striped bass movements and site fidelity in relation to seasonal patterns in habitat quality
... We conducted a 2-year telemetry study of 51 adult striped bass in Lake Gaston, North Carolina–Virgin- ia, to assess seasonal movements, distribution, and mortality rates. Our study resulted in detailed sea- ...
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Modelling impacts of acid deposition and groundwater level on habitat quality and plant species diversity
... Dutch habitat types as defined for the Natura 2000 sites (EZ ...corresponding habitat was based on inventories of the habitat types from plots present in the Dutch vegetation database (Hennekens and ...
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Variation in bird diversity with habitat quality in Hobart, Tasmania
... Thus, bird diversity, abundance and species composition across the urban gradient, including urban streets, urban parks, and remnant native vegetation reserves and habitat data on vegeta[r] ...
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Assessing Nursery Quality for Southern Flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma, through Fish Energy Content and Habitat Abiotic Conditions
... the quality of these vital ecosystems, and the significance of nursery habitat loss has become so distressing that most fishery management strategies now place high priority on the protection and ...
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Quantifying the effects of variable selection, spatial scale and spatial data quality in marine benthic habitat mapping
... benthic habitat mapping, it is possible that an intermediate observational scale finer than the current coarse-scale studies (although not too fine) could provide more useful information ...
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Lost floodplain wetland environments and efforts to restore connectivity, habitat, and water quality settings on the Great Barrier Reef
... (WDSS) was developed specifically for the GBR catchment to strategically prioritize wetlands for rehabilitation. It uses biophysical, socio-economic, community capacity, and threat data, as well as expert input to ...
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