TY - JOUR
T1 - Line Transect Methods for Plant Surveys
AU - Buckland, Stephen Terrence
AU - Borchers, David Louis
AU - Johnston, A
AU - Henrys, PA
AU - Marques, Tiago Andre Lamas Oliveira
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - Interest in surveys for monitoring plant abundance is increasing, due in part to the need to quantify the rate of loss of biodiversity. Line transect sampling offers an efficient way to monitor many species. However, the method does not work well in some circumstances, for example on small survey plots, when the plant species has a strongly aggregated distribution, or when plants that are on the line are not easily detected. We develop a crossed design, together with methods that exploit the additional information from
AB - Interest in surveys for monitoring plant abundance is increasing, due in part to the need to quantify the rate of loss of biodiversity. Line transect sampling offers an efficient way to monitor many species. However, the method does not work well in some circumstances, for example on small survey plots, when the plant species has a strongly aggregated distribution, or when plants that are on the line are not easily detected. We develop a crossed design, together with methods that exploit the additional information from
KW - biodiversity monitoring
KW - distance sampling
KW - line transect sampling
KW - mark-recapture
KW - sampling immotile objects
KW - REGIONS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36749085975&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00798.x
U2 - 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00798.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00798.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0006-341X
VL - 63
SP - 989
EP - 998
JO - Biometrics
JF - Biometrics
IS - 4
ER -