Refining the use of point counts at the scale of individual points in studies of bird-habitat relationships

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 367-382

  Drapeau, Pierre ^a,b   Leduc, Alain ^b   McNeil, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING BIAS;

AVES;

EID: 0033436377     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677009     Document Type: Article

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