Using simulation models to evaluate ape nest survey techniques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Boyko, Ryan H ^a   Marshall, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEST SUCCESS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; RELIABILITY; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; HOMINIDAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

HOMINIDAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 77956542990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010754     Document Type: Article

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