Monitoring programs need to take into account imperfect species detectability

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-73

  Kéry, Marc ^a   Schmid, Hans ^b  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avian surveys; Biodiversit tsmonitoring (BDM) Schweiz; Capture recapture models; Change of species richness; Extinction rate; Species richness; Survey; Trend

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 17944393449     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00194     Document Type: Article

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