The importance of survey timing in monitoring breeding seabird numbers

Waterbirds

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 22-33

  Johnson, Catherine M ^a,c   Krohn, William B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Natural Resources Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding; Double crested cormorant; Great black backed gull; Herring gull; Larus argentatus; Larus marinus; Monitoring; Phalacrocorax auritus; Population trend; Power analysis; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; BREEDING POPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS MARINUS; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 0035005896     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1522239     Document Type: Article

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