Monitoring seabirds population in marine ecosystem: The use of strip-transect aerial surveys

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3314-3322

  Certain, Grégoire ^a,b   Bretagnolle, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Biodiversity; Monitoring; Open sea areas; Seabirds; Strip transect; Visibility bias

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MAPPING; MONITORING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SURVEYS;

AERIAL SURVEYS; BAY OF BISCAY; DATA COLLECTED; DATA RESOLUTIONS; LARGE SCALES; LOW COSTS; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE SYSTEMS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AERIAL SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; DETECTION METHOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING; OPEN OCEAN; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [FRANCE]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MORUS BASSANUS; PINGUINUS;

EID: 45649085227     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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