Estimating bird species richness: How should repeat surveys be organized in time?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 624-629

  Field, Scott A ^a   Tyre, Andrew J ^b,c   Possingham, Hugh P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Mount Lofty Ranges; Species accumulation curves; Survey method; Woodland birds

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEYING; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MOUNT LOFTY RANGES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 1642272257     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01223.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bernardo J. & Smith A. (1994) Bayesian Theory. Wiley, Chinchester, UK.
2. Colwell R. K. & Coddington J. A. (1994) Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 345, 101-18.
3. Cunningham R., Lindenmayer D. B., Nix H. A. & Lindenmayer B. (1999) Quantifying observer heterogeneity in bird counts. Aust. J. Ecol. 24, 270-7.
4. Ford H. & Howe R. (1980) The future of birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges. South Aust. Ornithol. 28, 85-9.
5. Hewish M. & Loyn R. (1989) Popularity and Effectiveness of Four Survey Methods for Monitoring Populations of Australian Land Birds. RAOU Report 55. Royal Australian Ornithologist's Union, Melbourne.
6. Loyn R. (1986) The 20 minute search: A simple method for counting forest birds. Corella 10, 58-60.
7. Raaijmakers J. G. (1987) Statistical analysis of the Michaelis-Menten Equation. Biometrics 43, 793-803.
8. Recher H. F. (1988) Counting terrestrial birds: Use and applications of census procedures in Australia. Aust. Zool. Rev. 1, 25-45.
9. SoberError! Bookmark not defined.n J. & Llorente J. (1993) The use of species accumulation curves for the prediction of species richness. Conserv. Biol. 7, 480-8.
10. Wade P. R. (2000) Bayesian methods in conservation biology. Conserv. Biol. 14, 1308-16.