Modeling carcass removal time for avian mortality assessment in wind farms using survival analysis

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 147-165

  Bispo, Regina ^a,b,c   Bernardino, Joana ^d   Marques, Tiago A ^c,e   Pestana, Dinis ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c Center of Statistics Applications of Lisbon University CEAUL   (Portugal)

^d Estudos e Projectos em Biologia e Valorização de Recursos Naturais ^*  (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Bias correction factor; Lifetime distribution; Persistence rate; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIRD; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODELING; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERSISTENCE; SURVIVAL; WIND FARM;

PORTUGAL;

AVES;

EID: 84874808327     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-012-0212-5     Document Type: Article

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