Utility of measuring abundance versus consistent occupancy in predicting biodiversity persistence

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1260-1269

  Grouios, Christopher P ^a   Manne, Lisa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Area selection; Breeding Bird Survey; Permanence; Persistence; Point count; Presence Absence; Reserve design

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BREEDING POPULATION; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERSISTENCE; RESERVE DESIGN; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; POPULATION DENSITY;

AVES;

EID: 70349213432     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01253.x     Document Type: Article

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