Using integrated population models to improve conservation monitoring: California spotted owls as a case study

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 289, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-95

  Tempel, Douglas J ^a   Peery, M Z ^b   Gutierrez R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

California spotted owl; Integrated population model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Population analysis; Population decline

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWLS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; POPULATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODEL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVORSHIP;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904869816     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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