Capacity of large-scale, long-term biodiversity monitoring programmes to detect trends in species prevalence

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2961-2978

  Nielsen, Scott E ^a   Haughland, Diane L ^a   Bayne, Erin ^a   Schieck, Jim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Biodiversity monitoring; Detectability; Prevalence; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION STATUS; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350622988     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9619-1     Document Type: Article

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