Adjusting count period strategies to improve the accuracy of forest bird abundance estimates from point transect distance sampling surveys

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-325

  Lee, David C ^a   Marsden, Stuart J ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird surveys; Density estimates; Distance sampling; Philippines; Point counts; Settling down period

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CARNIVORE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INSECTIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AVES;

EID: 41149089574     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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