Estimating species occurrence, abundance, and detection probability using zero-inflated distributions

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2953-2959

  Wenger, Seth J ^a   Freeman, Mary C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Cherokee darter; Detectability; Etheostoma scotti; Negative binomial; Occupancy model; Poisson; Presence absence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; PERCIFORM; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATERFOWL;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ETHEOSTOMA SCOTTI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; DUCK; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PERCH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOMETRY; DUCKS; ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCHES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57449116711     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1127.1     Document Type: Article

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