Safety in numbers? Supplanting data quality with fanciful models in wildlife monitoring and conservation

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3269-3276

  Blanco, Guillermo ^a   Sergio, Fabrizio ^b   Sanchéz Zapata, José A ^c   Pérez García, Juan M ^c   Botella, Francisco ^c   Martínez, Félix ^d   Zuberogoitia, Iñigo ^e   Frías, Oscar ^a   Roviralta, Federico ^d   Martínez, José E ^f   Hiraldo, Fernando ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d Sociedad para la Conservación de los Vertebrados ^*  (Spain)

^e Estudios Medioambientales Icarus SL   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological unrealities; Data quality; Population size estimates; Sophisticated modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL METHOD; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVESTMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAFETY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES;

EID: 84870363093     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0344-9     Document Type: Article

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