An integrated population model from constant effort bird-ringing data

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-137

  Cave, Vanessa M ^a   King, Ruth ^a   Freeman, Stephen N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Capture recapture; Constant Effort Sites scheme; Emigration; Sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; Transients

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAPTURE METHOD; EMIGRATION; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; PASSERINE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS; AVES;

EID: 77951744935     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-009-0001-2     Document Type: Article

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