How should detection probability be incorporated into estimates of relative abundance?

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2387-2393

  MacKenzie, Darryl I ^a,c   Kendall, William C ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bioequivalence; Capture recapture; Detection probability; Equivalence testing; Growth rate; Hypothesis testing; Model averaging; Nuttall's cottontail rabbit; Relative abundance; Sylvilagus nuttallii

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAGOMORPH; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

LAGOMORPHA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SYLVILAGUS NUTTALLII;

EID: 0037888162     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2387:HSDPBI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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