Reducing false absences in survey data: Detection probabilities of red-backed salamanders

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 418-428

  Williams, Alison K ^a   Berkson, Jim ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cover object searches; Detection probabilities; Enclosures; Experiment; Mountain Lake Biological Research Station; Nighttime visual searches; Plethodon cinereus; Red backed salamanders

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WEATHER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 1942422263     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0418:RFAISD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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