Assessing Landscape Constraints on Species Abundance: Does the Neighborhood Limit Species Response to Local Habitat Conservation Programs?
Figure 5
The relationships between Ring-necked Pheasant abundance and the proportion of land cover types within a 5 km radius.
Ring-necked Pheasant populations respond positively to the proportion of row crop agriculture and small grains within the landscape (5 km radius), but negatively to the proportion of trees in the landscape. Solid line represents land cover relationships and the dashed lines represent the 95% credible intervals predicted out to the maximum range we observed during the study.