Use of distance sampling to improve estimates of national population sizes for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1330-1338

  Newson, Stuart E ^a   Evans, Karl L ^b   Noble, David G ^a   Greenwood, Jeremy J D ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding bird survey; Density estimates; Distance sampling; Habitat specific detectability; Population estimates

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 50649104138     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01480.x     Document Type: Article

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