Power to detect trends in abundance of long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) using counts on line transects

Science for Conservation

Volumn , Issue 224, 2003, Pages 5-19

  O'Donnell, Colin F J ^a   Langton, Steve ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Chalinolobus tuberculatus; Monitoring; New Zealand; Power analysis; Transects

Indexed keywords

BAT; LINE TRANSECT; POPULATION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

CHALINOLOBUS; CHALINOLOBUS TUBERCULATUS; TUBERCULATUS;

EID: 0041352312     PISSN: 11732946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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