forecasting the effects of land-use change on forest rodents in indiana. | forest cover in the upper wabash river basin in indiana was fragmented due to agricultural conversion beginning more than 175 years ago. currently, urban expansion is an important driver of land-use change in the basin. a land transformation model was applied to the basin to forecast land use from 2000 to 2020. we assessed the effect of this projected land-use change scenario on five forest rodent species at three scales: using occupancy models at the patch level, proportional occupancy models a ... | 2009 | 19774325 |