Estimating abundance from repeated presence-absence data or point counts

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 777-790

  Royle, J Andrew ^a   Nichols, James D ^b  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Breeding Bird Survey; Detection probability; Mixture models; Occupancy rate; Patch occupancy models; Point counts; Presence absence data

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0041813267     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0777:EAFRPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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