Mapping large-scale bird distributions using occupancy models and citizen data with spatially biased sampling effort

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 46-54

  Higa, Motoki ^a,c   Yamaura, Yuichi ^a,d   Koizumi, Itsuro ^a   Yabuhara, Yuki ^a   Senzaki, Masayuki ^a   Ono, Satoru ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imperfect detection; Maxlike; Multispecies occupancy model; Opportunistic citizen data; Pseudo absence data; Spatially biased sampling effort

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84919390936     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12255     Document Type: Article

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