A statistical methodology for tracking long-term change in reporting rates of birds from volunteer-collected presence-absence data

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1305-1327

  Cunningham, Ross ^a   Olsen, Penny ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Birds Australia   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Biodiversity monitoring; Birds; Multi species indices; Presence absence data; Tracking long term change; Volunteer collected data

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DATA ACQUISITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 67349176204     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9509-y     Document Type: Article

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