Visibility bias in aerial survey: Mark-recapture, line-transect or both?

Wildlife Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-309

  Laake, Jeff ^a   Dawson, Michelle J ^b   Hone, Jim ^b  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; DATA ACQUISITION; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; SAMPLING BIAS; VISIBILITY;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 46249085746     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR07034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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