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Evaluation of habitat quality for selected wildlife species associated with island back channels (2013)
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@MISC{Anderson13evaluationof,
author = {James T. Anderson and Andrew K. Zadnik and Petra Bohall Wood and Kerry Bledsoe},
title = {Evaluation of habitat quality for selected wildlife species associated with island back channels},
year = {2013}
}
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Abstract
Copyright © 2013 James T. Anderson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Li-cense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The islands and associated back channels on the Ohio River, USA, are believed to provide critical habitat features for several wildlife spe-cies. However, few studies have quantitatively evaluated habitat quality in these areas. Our main objective was to evaluate the habitat qual-ity of back and main channel areas for several species using habitat suitability index (HSI) models. To test the effectiveness of these mod-els, we attempted to relate HSI scores and the variables measured for each model with meas-ures of relative abundance for the model species.
