Effects of vegetation and background noise on the detection process in auditory avian point-count surveys

Auk

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 600-607

  Pacifici, Krishna ^a,b   Simons, Theodore R ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aural detections; Background noise; Detection probability; Habitat effects; Point counts; Population indices

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIRD; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; NOISE; PROBABILITY; VEGETATION;

AVES; MNIOTILTA; MNIOTILTA VARIA; TOXOSTOMA RUFUM;

EID: 59749087496     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2008.07078     Document Type: Article

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