Challenges of ecological monitoring: Estimating population abundance from sparse trap counts

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 68, 2012, Pages 420-435

  Petrovskaya, Natalia ^a   Petrovskii, Sergei ^b   Murchie, Archie K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coarse grid; Ecological monitoring; Numerical integration; Pest control; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COARSE GRID; ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; FIELD DATA; IN-FIELD; INVERTEBRATE SPECIES; MAKING DECISION; MONITORING PROGRAMMES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFTS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION SIZES; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SIMULATION DATA; SPARSE DATA; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PEST CONTROL;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856892859     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0386     Document Type: Article

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