Accounting for weather and time-of-day parameters when analysing count data from monitoring programs

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3403-3416

  Bas, Yves ^a   Devictor, Vincent ^a   Moussus, Jean Pierre ^a   Jiguet, Frédéric ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding bird survey; Detectability; Fragmentation; Point counts; Relative abundance; Time of day; Weather conditions

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRAGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AVES;

EID: 56549127386     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9420-6     Document Type: Article

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