Predicting Species Distributions from Samples Collected along Roadsides

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-77

  Mccarthy, Kyle P ^a,d   Fletcher Jr, Robert J ^a   Rota, Christopher T ^b   Hutto, Richard L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding birds; Monitoring programs; Niche models; Occupancy models; Road effects; Sample bias; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; GENERALIST; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROADKILL; SAMPLING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IDAHO; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTANA; POPULATION DENSITY;

IDAHO; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 84856355502     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01754.x     Document Type: Article

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