Regional avian species declines estimated from volunteer-collected long-term data using List Length Analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2157-2169

  Szabo, Judit K ^a,c   Vesk, Peter A ^b   Baxter, Peter W J ^a,b   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avifauna; Bayesian logistic regression; Birds; Citizen science; Conservation; Detecting population change; Historical records; Museum data; Presence only data; Relative abundance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONITORING; MUSEUM; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIORITIZATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

AVES;

EID: 78649813449     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0877.1     Document Type: Article

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