Sub-sampling data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey for application to the Bird Community Index, an indicator of ecological condition

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 679-691

  O'Connell, Timothy J ^a   Bishop, Joseph A ^a   Brooks, Robert P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird Community Index; Breeding Bird Survey; Data manipulation; Ecological assessment; Methodology; Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BIRD COMMUNITY INDEX (BCI); BREEDING BIRD SURVEYS; DATA MANIPULATION; ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE;

BIRDS;

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INDEX METHOD; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33947621110     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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