Application of a variance decomposition method to compare satellite and aerial inventory data: a tool for evaluating wildlife-habitat relationships

摘要

1. Researchers frequently rely on forest inventories derived for other purposes when characterizing wildlife-habitat associations. When studied populations are remote and inventory coverage is incomplete for one or more data sets, researchers must often choose between the need for greater detail in habitat information and complete coverage of the land base. Forest inventories are often limited to canopy-level information; however, different aspects of the overstorey and understorey may be important to wildlife.