Testing the importance of auditory detections in avian point counts

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-182

  Brewster, Jerome P ^a   Simons, Theodore R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Detection probability; Point counts; Sampling; Visual

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 66149174803     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: 15579263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-9263.2009.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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