Robustness and uncertainty in estimates of butterfly abundance from transect counts

Population Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-200

  Gross, Kevin ^a   Kalendra, Eric J ^a   Hudgens, Brian R ^a   Haddad, Nick M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bayesian statistics; Estimation; Parametric bootstrap; Population monitoring

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BUTTERFLY; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; TRANSECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEONYMPHA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 34250852849     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-007-0034-8     Document Type: Article

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