A comparison of estimates of relative abundance from a weakly structured mass-participation bird atlas survey and a robustly designed monitoring scheme

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Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 468-479

  Szabo, Judit K ^a,b   Fuller, Richard A ^a,c   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bird surveys; Mount Lofty Ranges; Population estimates; Volunteer collected data

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT TYPE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT LOFTY RANGES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AVES; IBIS;

EID: 84868618117     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01229.x     Document Type: Article

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