Summary of intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting detection probability of marsh birds

Wetlands

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 403-411

  Conway, Courtney J ^a   Gibbs, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitterns; Call broadcast; Monitoring; Rails; Tape playback .Vocalization probability

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLOUD COVER; CONSPECIFIC; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE CYCLE; MARSH; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; VOCALIZATION; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARDEIDAE; AVES; PODICIPEDIDAE; PORZANA; PORZANA CAROLINA; RALLUS LIMICOLA; RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS;

EID: 79959967963     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-011-0155-x     Document Type: Article

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