Power to detect trends in marbled murrelet breeding populations using audiovisual and radar surveys

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 493-504

  Bigger, David ^a,b,d   Peery, M Zachariah ^b   Baldwin, Jim ^c   Chinnici, Sal ^d   Courtney, Steven P ^a  

^a Sustainable Ecosystems Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d Scotia Pacific Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiovisual surveys; California; Marbled murrelet; Monitoring; Populations; Power; Radar surveys

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BREEDING POPULATION; RADAR; RADIOTELEMETRY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRACHYRAMPHUS; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS; MURRELET;

EID: 33646674109     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[493:PTDTIM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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