Time-of-detection method for estimating abundance from point-count surveys

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 653-664

  Alldredge, Mathew W ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^a   Simons, Theodore R ^b   Collazo, Jaime A ^b   Shriner, Susan A ^c  

^a Wildlife Health Program   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Bird surveys; Capture recapture; Detection probability; Point counts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CAPTURE METHOD; DETECTION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SURVEY;

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; MARGAROPS FUSCATUS; PASSERI;

EID: 33947314870     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[653:TMFEAF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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