Monitoring forest bird communities for impact assessment: The influence of sampling intensity and spatial scale

Biological Conservation

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 355-367

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Impact assessment; Monitoring; Power analysis; Resampling

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST BIRD; MONITORING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL SCALE;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0030931071     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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