Estimating the response of Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) to the conservation reserve program

Auk

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 434-444

  Nielson, Ryan M ^a   McDonald, Lyman L ^a   Sullivan, Joseph P ^b   Burgess, Colleen ^c   Johnson, Devin S ^d   Johnson, Douglas H ^e   Bucholtz, Shawn ^f   Hyberg, Skip ^g   Howlin, Shay ^a  

^a West Incorporated   (United States)

^b Ardea Consulting   (United States)

^c Department of Math Ecology ^*  (United States)

^d NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding Bird Survey; Conservation Reserve Program; Hierarchical model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Phasianus colchicus; Poisson regression; Ring necked Pheasant

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AVES; PHASIANIDAE; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 53049093122     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2008.07002     Document Type: Article

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