Power to detect trends in abundance of secretive marsh birds: Effects of species traits and sampling effort

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 445-453

  Steidl, Robert J ^a   Conway, Courtney J ^b   Litt, Andrea R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

marsh birds; monitoring; power analysis; rails; trends; wetland birds; zero inflated Poisson

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIRD; DATA ACQUISITION; MARSH; MONITORING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 84875722871     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.505     Document Type: Article

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