Estimating abundance of unmarked animal populations: Accounting for imperfect detection and other sources of zero inflation

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 543-556

  Dénes, Francisco V ^a,b,c   Silveira, Luís Fábio ^a   Beissinger, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Count data; Detection; Distance sampling; Hierarchical model; Multispecies abundance model; N mixture model; Population size

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84929513744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12333     Document Type: Article

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