Determining optimal population monitoring for rare butterflies

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 929-940

  Haddad, Nick M ^a   Hudgens, Brian ^b   Damiani, Chris ^c   Gross, Kevin ^a   Kuefler, Daniel ^a   Pollock, Ken ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Redwood Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Distance sampling; Endangered butterflies; Insects; Mark recapture; Rare species; Species monitoring; Threatened species; Transect counts

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; SAMPLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; NEONYMPHA MITCHELLII; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 48749092679     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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