Spatially explicit estimation of occupancy, detection probability and survey effort needed to inform conservation planning

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 714-724

  Olea, Pedro P ^a   Mateo Tomás, Patricia ^b  

^a IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Monitoring programmes; Neophron percnopterus; Presence absence; Site occupancy modelling; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS;

EID: 79958139942     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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