Extinction rate estimates for plant populations in revisitation studies: Importance of detectability

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 570-574

  Kéry, Marc ^a,b  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCHWEIZERISCHE VOGELWARTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Capture recapture models; Demography; Detectability; Extinction rate; Plant census; Revisitation study

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; PLANT;

EID: 1842764820     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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