On the importance of g(0) for estimating bird population densities with standard distance-sampling: Implications from a telemetry study and a literature review

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-700

  Bächler, Erich ^a   Liechti, Felix ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; DETECTION METHOD; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RADIOTELEMETRY; TAGGING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SYLVIA HORTENSIS;

EID: 35048821947     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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