Field comparison of removal and modified double-observer modeling for estimating detectability and abundance of birds

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 865-876

  Moore, Jeffrey E ^a   Scheiman, Daniel M ^a   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AVES;

EID: 3242678134     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090322     Document Type: Article

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