Habitat Selection Attributes of an Avian Community: A Discriminant Analysis Investigation

Habitat use characteristics of all bird species occurring in the lower Colorado River valley were studied. Seventy—two transects, each through homogeneous stands of vegetation and together representing all riparian habitat types occurring in the area, were censused three times monthly for 2 yr (1977, 1978) to provide distributional records for all species. From the census data we divided the transects into three groups for each bird species each...