Estimating the sizes of large gull colonies taking into account nest detection probability

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-60

  Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Gélinaud, Guillaume ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SEPNB   (France)

Author keywords

Abundance; Census; Detection probability; Double observer; Gulls; Larus sp.; Population size

Indexed keywords

COLONY; POPULATION SIZE;

LARUS;

EID: 18844413819     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)028[0053:ETSOLG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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