Correcting observer effect bias in estimates of nesting success of a coastal bird, the white-fronted plover charadrius marginatus: A recently developed observer-effects model gives better estimates than the survival model

Bird Study

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 124-130

  Lloyd, Penn ^a   Plagányi, Éva E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Atilax; Burhinus; Canis; Charadrius; Corvus; Felis; Galerella; Genetta; Larus; Vanellus

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ESTIMATION METHOD; NESTING SUCCESS;

AVES; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS MARGINATUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036071806     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650209461256     Document Type: Article

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