A better way to estimate population trends

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1940-1946

  Humbert, Jean Yves ^a,b   Mills, L Scott ^a   Horne, Jon S ^c   Dennis, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; LOGISTICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 71049183468     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17839.x     Document Type: Article

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