A sampling design framework for monitoring secretive marshbirds

Waterbirds

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-215

  Johnson, Douglas H ^a   Gibbs, James P ^b   Herzog, Mark ^c   Lor, Socheata ^d   Niemuth, Neal D ^e   Ribic, Christine A ^f   Seamans, Mark ^e   Shaffer, Terry L ^a   Shriver, W Gregory ^g   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Thompson, William L ^h  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^d US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^e U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Marshbirds; Monitoring; Population; Sampling design; Survey

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MONITORING; PASSERINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; WETLAND;

AVES;

EID: 77749289268     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.032.0201     Document Type: Article

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