Factors affecting aural detections of songbirds

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 948-955

  Alldredge, Mathew W ^a,b   Simons, Theodore R ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory detection; Detection probability; Observer differences; Point counts; Singing rate; Species difference; Warblers

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUDITORY CUE; DETECTION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; DENDROICA VIRENS; MNIOTILTA VARIA; PASSERI; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS; WILSONIA (AVES); WILSONIA CITRINA;

EID: 34247191553     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0685     Document Type: Article

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