Occupancy as a surrogate for abundance estimation

In many monitoring programmes it may be prohibitively expensive to estimate the actual abundance of a bird species in a defined area, particularly at large spatial scales, or where birds occur at very low densities. Often it may be appropriate to consider the proportion of area occupied by the speci...

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Main Authors: MacKenzie, D. I., Nichols, J. D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona 2004-06-01
Series:Animal Biodiversity and Conservation
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Online Access:http://abc.museucienciesjournals.cat/files/ABC-27-1-pp-461-467.pdf