Are point counts of boreal songbirds reliable proxies for more intensive abundance estimators?

Auk

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 438-454

  Toms, Judith D ^a,b,d   Schmiegelow, Fiona K A ^a   Hannon, Susan J ^a   Villard, Marc André ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Detectability; Point count; Sampling error; Spatial variation; Spot mapping; Territory size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; MAPPING METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; SONGBIRD;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; BIAS; PASSERI;

EID: 33646592216     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[438:APCOBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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