Assessing migration patterns in Passerina ciris using the world’s bird collections as an aggregated resource
Natural history museum collections (NHCs) represent a rich and largely untapped source of data on demography and population movements. NHC specimen records can be corrected to a crude measure of collecting effort and reflect relative population densities with a method known as abundance indices. We...
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PeerJ Inc.
2016-04-01
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