Producing regional estimates of population size for common and widespread breeding birds from national monitoring data

Bird Study

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-21

  Norman, David ^a   Harris, Robert J ^a   Newson, Stuart E ^b  

^a Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIRD; BREEDING SITE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRECISION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE METHOD; TRANSECT;

CHESHIRE; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WIRRAL;

AVES;

EID: 84857201273     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2011.623766     Document Type: Article

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