Quantifying range-wide variation in population trends from local abundance surveys and widespread opportunistic occurrence records

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 751-760

  Pagel, Jörn ^a,b   Anderson, Barbara J ^c,d   O'Hara, Robert B ^e   Cramer, Wolfgang ^f   Fox, Richard ^g   Jeltsch, Florian ^a   Roy, David B ^h   Thomas, Chris D ^d   Schurr, Frank M ^b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^f AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^h CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlas data; Bayesian statistics; Biogeography; Butterflies; Citizen science programme; Conservation biology; Count data; Macroecology; State space model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906058569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12221     Document Type: Article

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