Incorporating availability for detection in estimates of bird abundance

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-106

  Diefenbach, Duane R ^a   Marshall, Matthew R ^a   Mattice, Jennifer A ^a   Brauning, Daniel W ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Game Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammodramus henslowii; Ammodramus savannarum; Availability; Detection probability; Distance sampling; Double observer sampling; Grasshopper Sparrow; Henslow's Sparrow; Point counts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMONITORING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SONGBIRD; SURVEY;

AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWII; AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM; AVES; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 33846834016     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[96:IAFDIE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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