Comparison of methods for estimating bird abundance and trends from historical count data

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1674-1682

  Thompson III, Frank R ^a   La Sorte, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Detection probability; Distance models; Point counts; Poisson models; Removal models; Songbirds; Southeastern United States

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POISSON RATIO; SONGBIRD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 56649101942     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-135     Document Type: Article

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