Evaluating citizen-based presence data for bird monitoring

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 804-810

  Snäll, Tord ^a   Kindvall, Oskar ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Pärt, Tomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Bird; Citizen science; GBIF; Presence only

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; DATA SET; DATABASE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC ACCESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 79451475604     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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