Designing a bird monitoring scheme for New Zealand's agricultural sectors

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  MacLeod, Catriona ^a,b   Blackwell, Grant ^a,c   Weller, Florian ^a   Moller, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Offce of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Detectability; Distance sampling; Effective survey width; Sampling uncertainty; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIRD; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND MANAGEMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLICY APPROACH; POPULATION DECLINE; SAMPLING; SUSTAINABILITY; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA; AVES; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84864461110     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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