Reviving common standards in point-count surveys for broad inference across studies

Condor

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 599-608

  Matsuoka, Steven M ^a,e   Mahon, C Lisa ^b   Handel, Colleen M ^c   Sólymos, Péter ^a   Bayne, Erin M ^a   Fontaine, Patricia C ^a   Ralph, C John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Avian point count; Breeding bird abundance; Detection probability; Landbirds; Landscape scale; Metaanalysis; Monitoring; Survey techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908606343     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/CONDOR-14-108.1     Document Type: Review

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