Improving the accuracy of counts of wetland breeding birds at the point scale

Wetlands

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 518-527

  Tozer, Douglas C ^a,c   Abraham, Kenneth F ^b   Nol, Erica ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flushing line; Point count; Repeated visits; Site occupancy; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SITE; MARSH; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33845740126     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[518:ITAOCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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