Detecting population decline of birds using long-term monitoring data

Population Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-284

  Fujisaki, Ikuko ^a   Pearlstine, Elise V ^b   Miller, Mark ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Change point analysis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Population monitoring

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PASSERINE; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 45449113942     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-008-0083-7     Document Type: Article

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