Modeling false positive detections in species occurrence data under different study designs

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 332-339

  Chambert, Thierry ^a,b   Miller, David A W ^a   Nichols, James D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection error; False negative; False positive; Misidentification; Observation error; Occupancy modeling; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84927936680     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1507.1     Document Type: Article

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