Line transect sampling of Karner blue butterflies (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-91

  Brown, J A ^a,c,e   Boyce, M S ^b,d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d Wisconsin Acad Sci Arts Letters   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Detection function; Distance sampling; Monitoring; Pollard Yates

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DENSITY ESTIMATION; LINE TRANSECT; POPULATION DENSITY;

LEPIDOPTESA; LYCAEIDES MELISSA SAMUELIS; LYCAENIDAE;

EID: 0031805636     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009620105039     Document Type: Article

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