Mapping Functional Traits: Comparing Abundance and Presence-Absence Estimates at Large Spatial Scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Newbold, Tim ^a,b   Butchart, Stuart H M ^c   Şekercioǧlu, Çaǧan H ^d   Purves, Drew W ^b   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; DIETARY INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MAPPING FUNCTIONAL TRAIT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

AVES;

EID: 84865614087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044019     Document Type: Article

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