The Influence of Habitat, Season, and Detectability on Abundance Estimates across an Amazonian Parrot Assemblage

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 537-544

  Lee, Alan T K ^a   Marsden, Stuart J ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon; Bird survey; Distance sampling; Peru; Psittacidae; Tambopata

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST CANOPY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; MADRE DE DIOS; PERU; TAMBOPATA;

AMAZONA FARINOSA; AVES; BROTOGERIS CYANOPTERA; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 84863484560     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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