Addressing challenges when studying mobile or episodic species: Hierarchical Bayes estimation of occupancy and use

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Mordecai, Rua S ^a   Mattsson, Brady J ^a   Tzilkowski, Caleb J ^b   Cooper, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Louisiana waterthrush; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Monitoring; Multi scale occupancy; Seiurus motacilla; Spatiotemporal distribution; State space modelling; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EPHEMEROPTERA; PLECOPTERA; SEIURUS MOTACILLA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 78650961118     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01921.x     Document Type: Article

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