Accounting for incomplete detection: What are we estimating and how might it affect long-term passerine monitoring programs?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 130-139

  Schmidt, Joshua H ^a   McIntyre, Carol L ^b   MacCluskie, Margaret C ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b Denali National Park and Preserve   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Detection probability; Long term monitoring; Population trend; Repeated counts; Superpopulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; BREEDING SEASON; FIELD SURVEY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALASKA; DENALI NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874505659     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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