Estimating site occupancy and species detection probability parameters for terrestrial salamanders

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 692-702

  Bailey, Larissa L ^a,b   Simons, Theodore R ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Detection probability; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Monitoring; Plethodontid salamanders; Site occupancy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; SPACE USE;

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; REPTILIA;

EID: 2342652128     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5012     Document Type: Article

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