Estimating species richness: The importance of heterogeneity in species detectability

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1018-1028

  Boulinier, Thierry ^a,c   Nichols, James D ^b   Sauer, John R ^b   Hines, James E ^b   Pollock, K H ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Community ecology; Detectability; Heterogeneity; Model selection; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS;

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EID: 0031848794     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1018:ESRTIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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