Absent or undetected? Effects of non-detection of species occurrence on wildlife-habitat models

Biological Conservation

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-203

  Gu, Weidong ^a,b   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Habitat based model; Logistic regression model; Misclassification; Parameter estimation; Patch occupancy model; Presence absence; Release recapture

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; HABITAT SELECTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347597023     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00190-3     Document Type: Article

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