Statistical power of presence-absence data to detect population declines

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1034-1038

  Strayer, David L ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 0032847076     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98143.x     Document Type: Article

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