Densities of individually marked migrants away from the marking site to estimate population sizes: A test with three wader populations

Bird Study

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-140

  Spaans, Bernard ^a   Van Kooten, Laurens ^a   Cremer, Jenny ^a   Leyrer, Jutta ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; MARKING METHOD; MIGRATORY POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SURVIVAL; WADER;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS; LIMOSA LAPPONICA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 79956135239     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2011.566601     Document Type: Article

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