Research and management viewpoint - Enhancing the value of the breeding bird survey: Reply to Sauer et al. (2005)

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1327-1332

  Francis, Charles M ^a   Bart, Jonathan ^b   Dunn, Erica H ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^c   Ralph, C John ^d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Bird surveys; Monitoring; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Population trends; Trend estimation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; SURVEY; TREND ANALYSIS;

AVES; BIAS;

EID: 33645667120     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)69[1327:ETVOTB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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