Estimating and dealing with detectability in occupancy surveys for forest owls and arboreal marsupials

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 905-917

  Wintle, Brendan A ^a   Kavanagh, Rodney P ^b   McCarthy, Michael A ^c   Burgman, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Research and Development Division   (Australia)

^c Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detectability; False absence; Greater glider; Occupancy; Powerful owl; Sooty owl; Sugar glider; Yellow bellied glider; Zero inflated binomial

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT USE; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION MODELING; RAPTOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

METATHERIA; NINOX STRENUA; PETAUROIDES VOLANS; PETAURUS BREVICEPS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 15944416702     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[0905:EADWDI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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