An empirical probability model of detecting species at low densities

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1162-1172

  Delaney, David G ^a,b   Leung, Brian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian shore crab; Bioinvasion; Carcinus maenas; Coastal new england and new york; Detection; European green crab; False negatives; Hemigrapsus sanguineus; Marine introduced species; Presence absence survey data; Sampling approach; Search theory; USA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRAB; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ENGLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

NEW ENGLAND; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 77953148301     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0309.1     Document Type: Article

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