Rapid monitoring of species abundance for biodiversity conservation: Consistency and reliability of the MacKinnon lists technique

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1374-1381

  MacLeod, Ross ^a   Herzog, Sebastian K ^b   Maccormick, Aidan ^a   Ewing, Steven R ^a   Bryce, Rosalind ^a   Evans, Karl L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Asociacion Armonia BirdLife International   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity survey methods; Bird surveys; Rapid assessment surveys; Species lists technique

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BREEDING SEASON; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIMITING FACTOR; MAPPING METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TERRITORY;

BOLIVIA;

AVES;

EID: 79956199770     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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