Predicting regional abundance of rare grassland birds with a hierarchical spatial count model

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-46

  Thogmartin, Wayne E ^a   Knutson, Melinda G ^a   Sauer, John R ^b  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bobolink; Grasshopper Sparrow; Henslow's Sparrow; Hierarchical model; Sedge Wren; Upland Sandpiper

Indexed keywords

AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA; CISTOTHORUS PLATENSIS; DOLICHONYX; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 32344440300     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[0025:PRAORG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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