Power to detect trend in short-term time series of bird abundance

Condor

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 943-948

  Thogmartin, Wayne E ^a   Gray, Brian R ^a   Gallagher, Maureen ^b,c   Young, Neal ^b,d   Rohweder, Jason J ^a   Knutson, Melinda G ^a,e  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b United States Fish and Wildlife Service Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service Appalachian Partnership Coordination Office   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e United States Fish   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain habitat; Missouri River; Point counts; Poisson regression; Power; Trend estimation; Underdispersion

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 38349078763     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[943:PTDTIS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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