A hierarchical spatial model of avian abundance with application to Cerulean Warblers

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1766-1779

  Thogmartin, Wayne E ^a   Sauer, John R ^b   Knutson, Melinda G ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance mapping; Bayesian; CAR; Cerulean Warbler; Conditional autoregression; Count data; Dendroica cerulea; Markov chain Monte Carlo; MCMC; North American Breeding Bird Survey; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; MAPPING; MARKOV CHAIN; PASSERINE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA; DENDROICA CERULEA; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 7544251105     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5247     Document Type: Review

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