Experimental analysis of the auditory detection process on avian point counts

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 986-999

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

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Detection probability; Measurement error; Point counts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AMBIENT NOISE; CENSUS; COMPUTER; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; PROBABILITY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 34247273127     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[986:EAOTAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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