Off-road sampling reveals a different grassland bird community than roadside sampling: implications for survey design and estimates to guide conservation

Off-road sampling reveals a different grassland bird community than roadside sampling: implications for survey design and estimates to guide conservation

Grassland bird species continue to decline steeply across North America. Road-based surveys such as the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) are often used to estimate trends and population sizes and to build species distribution models for grassland birds, although roadside survey counts may i...

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Main Authors: Troy I. Wellicome, Kevin J. Kardynal, Renee J. Franken, Cameron S. Gillies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-06-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
Subjects:
agriculture
grassland birds
human-modified habitats
North American Breeding Bird Survey
roadside bias
species distribution models
Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol9/iss1/art4/

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