Integration of Ecological and Geospatial Methods to Understand the Relationship between Major Attributes of Wetlands and their Dependent Water Birds in West Bengal: A Review

Abstract

Characterizing the relationships between species composition and environmental conditions is a basic objective of ecology. The predictors of species composition typically include variables such as climate, topography, land cover and random processes. The objective of the review is to quantify the effect of environmental determinants on water bird population trends in wetlands at various spatial scales by integrating ecological and geospatial methods.