Estimating population change from count data: Application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 258-268

  Link, William A ^a   Sauer, John R ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Counts; Generalized linear models; Monitoring; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Surveys; Trends

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE; POPULATION CHANGE; SURVEY DATA;

NORTH AMERICA;

THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS;

EID: 0031980585     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0258:EPCFCD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Barker, R. J., and J. R. Sauer. 1992. Modelling population change from time series data. Pages 182-194 in D. R. McCullough and R. Barrett, editors. Wildlife 2001: populations. Elsevier, New York, New York, USA.
2. Flather, C. H., and J. R. Sauer. 1996. Using landscape ecology to test hypotheses about large-scale abundance patterns in migratory songbirds. Ecology 77:28-35.
3. Geissler, P. H., and B. R. Noon. 1981. Estimates of avian population trends from the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Pages 42-51 in C. J. Ralph and J. M. Scott, editors. Estimating numbers of terrestrial birds. Studies in Avian Biology, 6.
4. Geissler, P. H., and J. R. Sauer. 1990. Topics in route-regression analysis. Pages 54-57 in J. R. Sauer and S. Droege, editors. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Biological Report 90(1).
5. Hastie, T. J., and R. J. Tibshirani. 1990. Generalized additive models. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
6. James, F. C., C. E. McCulloch, and D. A. Wiedenfeld. 1996. New approaches to the analysis of population trends in land birds. Ecology 77:13-21.
7. Kendall, W. L., B. G. Peterjohn, and J. R. Sauer. 1996. First-time observer effects in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 113:823-829.
8. Lancia, R. A., J. D. Nichols, and K. H. Pollock. 1994. Estimating the number of animals in wildlife populations. Pages 215-253 in T. A. Bookhout, editor. Research and management techniques for wildlife and habitats. Fifth edition Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
9. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1994. Estimating equations estimates of trends. Bird Populations 2:23-32.
10. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1996. Extreme values in ecological studies: on avoiding the misleading effects of sampling variation in summary analyses. Ecology 77:1633-1640.
11. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997a. Estimation of population trajectories from count data. Biometrics 53:63-72.
12. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997b. "New approaches to the analysis of population trends in land birds": a comment on statistical methods. Ecology 78:2632-2634.
13. Maurer, B. A. 1994. Geographical population analysis. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
14. McCullagh, P., and J. A. Nelder. 1989. Generalized linear models. Second edition. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
15. Peterjohn, B. G. 1994. The North American Breeding Bird Survey. Birding 26:386-398.
16. Peterjohn, B. G., J. R. Sauer, and W. A. Link. 1994. The 1992 and 1993 summary of the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Bird Populations 2:46-51.
17. Peterjohn, B. G., J. R. Sauer, and C. S. Robbins. 1995. The North American Breeding Bird Survey and population trends of neotropical migrant birds. Pages 3-39 in T. E. Martin and D. Finch, editors. Neotropical migrant birds Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, USA.
18. Robbins, C. S., B. Bruun, and H. S. Zim. 1983. Birds of North America. Golden Press, New York, New York, USA.
19. Robbins, C. S., D. Bystrak, and P. H. Geissler. 1986. The Breeding Bird Survey: its first fifteen years, 1965-1979, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Resource Publication 157.
20. Robbins, C. S., J. R. Sauer, R. S. Greenberg, and S. Droege. 1989. Recent declines in populations of birds that migrate to the neotropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 86:7658-7662.
21. Sauer, J. R., G. W. Pendleton, and S. Orsillo. 1995. Mapping of bird distributions from point count surveys. Pages 151-160 in C. J. Ralph, J. R. Sauer, and S. Droege, editors. Monitoring bird populations by point counts. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-149.
22. Sauer, J. R., G. W. Pendleton, and B. G. Peterjohn. 1996. Evaluating causes of population change in North American insectivorous songbirds. Conservation Biology 10:465-478.
23. Sauer, J. R., B. G. Peterjohn, and W. A. Link. 1994. Observer differences in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 111:50-62.