Cost-effective Sampling Design Applied to Large-scale Monitoring of Boreal Birds

Cost-effective Sampling Design Applied to Large-scale Monitoring of Boreal Birds

Despite their important roles in biodiversity conservation, large-scale ecological monitoring programs are scarce, in large part due to the difficulty of achieving an effective design under fiscal constraints. Using long-term avian monitoring in the boreal forest of Alberta, Canada as an example, we...

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Main Authors: Matthew Carlson, Fiona Schmiegelow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2002-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
allocation of sample effort
boreal birds
community metrics
cost-effective sample design
forest bird populations
long-term monitoring
partial derivatives
power analysis
sample error
temporal and spatial variation
trend detection
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss2/art11/

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