Monitoring distributions using call surveys: Estimating site occupancy, detection probabilities and inferring absence

Biological Conservation

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-35

  Pellet, Jérôme ^a   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^b,c  

^a Institute of Ecology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alytes obstetricans; Amphibians; Anuran call survey; Bombina variegata; Bufo calamita; Detection probability; Distribution; Hyla arborea; Monitoring; Site occupancy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DETECTION METHOD; MONITORING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOCALIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; AMPHIBIA; BOMBINA; BOMBINA VARIEGATA; BUFO; BUFO CALAMITA; HYLA; HYLA ARBOREA;

EID: 11144262656     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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