The use of satellite imagery to estimate Dunlin Calidris alpina abundance in Caithness and Sutherland and in the Shetland Islands

Bird Study

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 220-226

  Lavers, Christopher ^a   Haines Young, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calidris; Calluna; Eriophorum; Molinia; Racomitrium; Sphagnum; Tricophorum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; DUNLIN; NEAR-INFRARED REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING;

SCOTLAND; UK;

CALIDRIS ALPINA;

EID: 0030829480     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659709461057     Document Type: Article

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