Factors affecting detection probability in plant distribution studies

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1383-1389

  Chen, Guoke ^a,b   Kéry, Marc ^c   Zhang, Jinlong ^a   Ma, Keping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; China; Detection probability; Forest dynamic plot; Generalized linear mixed model; Monitoring; Plant distribution

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MONITORING SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUB;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 70349902246     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01560.x     Document Type: Article

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