Optimising biodiversity assessments by volunteers: The application of occupancy modelling to large-scale amphibian surveys

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2102-2110

  Sewell, David ^a,b   Beebee, Trevor J C ^b   Griffiths, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Detection; Occupancy modelling; Survey; Volunteer

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAPPING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; REPTILIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; TRITURUS HELVETICUS;

EID: 77955096356     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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