Habitat and Landscape Suitability as Indicators of Bird Abundance in Created and Restored Wetlands

Table 3

Characteristics of the landscape surrounding Ohio mitigation bank wetlands. Connectedness, road density, and residential development are determined to a radius 2.5 km from the center of each wetland while the LDI [28] is calculated for a 1 km radius.

Wetland	Average upland buffer (m)	Connectedness (percentage of area to 2.5 km)		Road density (m/ha to 2.5 km)		Rate of residential development (ha/yr to 2.5 km)	Land use development (LDI to 1 km)
		Early	Recent	Early	Recent
Big Island	619	24.5	25.5	10	11	1.3	2.0
Blue Heron	89	0.0	0.0	11	11	1.0	3.8
Carlisle-Hale	104	8.4	12.0	16	15	8.3	3.8
Castalia Quarry	20	25.0	26.5	11	11	2.1	3.2
Hebron	205	4.0	3.9	13	12	0.0	3.7
Little Scioto	165	4.9	5.4	8	8	1.2	1.9
Slate Run	586	13.2	14.3	13	13	0.0	3.5
Average	255	11.4	12.5	12	12	2.0	3.1
Standard Error	92	3.8	3.9	1.0	0.8	1.1	0.3