Point count duration: Five minutes are usually sufficient to model the distribution of bird species and to study the structure of communities for a French landscape;Punkt-Stopp Zählungen: Fünf Minuten sind normalerweise ausreichend um die Verteilung von Vogelarten zu modellieren und die Struktur der Artengemeinschaften in einer französischen Landschaft zu untersuchen.

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 491-504

  Bonthoux, Sébastien ^a   Balent, Gérard ^a  

^a UMR 1201 Dynafor   (France)

Author keywords

Detectability; Model performance; Point count duration; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; DETECTION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 84860484492     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-011-0766-2     Document Type: Article

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