The integration of remotely sensed data, wildlife surveys, and landscape metrics for the determination of habitat scale and quality

This paper presents work in progress to determine the scale of habitats and the affect of human influenced land cover types on bird diversity. This investigation is based on the incorporation of land cover maps generated from remotely sensed imagery and a field survey of diversity. The collected data from these two sources are analyzed using landscape metrics as well as linear and spatial linear regression for the purpose of determining the association of avian diversity with proximity to human influence land cover, size of habitat patch, heterogeneity, and shape characteristics of the habitat patch