Monitoring abundance of golden eagles in the western United States

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 721-730

  Nielson, Ryan M ^a   McManus, Lindsay ^a   Rintz, Troy ^a   McDonald, Lyman L ^a   Murphy, Robert K ^b   Howe, William H ^b   Good, Rhett E ^a  

^a WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

aerial surveys; Aquila chrysaetos; Bayesian hierarchical model; density; distance sampling; golden eagle; mark recapture; population trend; western United States

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR;

UNITED STATES;

AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; AVES;

EID: 84899571195     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.704     Document Type: Article

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