FRANSCI (4)SCI222 Page 1 Statistical Science 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4, 427–456 Estimating
Animal Abundance: Review III Carl J. Schwarz and George AF Seber Abstract. The literature …

Variation in avian diversity in space and time is commonly used as a metric to assess
environmental changes. Conventionally, such data were collected by expert observers, but …

We summarize results of a November 2006 workshop dealing with recent research on the
estimation of landbird abundance from count data. Our conceptual framework includes a …

Photographic and video methods are frequently used to increase the efficiency of coral reef
monitoring efforts. The random point count method is commonly used on still images or …

Acoustic signals constitute a source of information that can be used to measure the spatial
and temporal distributions of vocal organisms in ecosystems. Measuring and tracking those …

Many authors have suggested that the negative effects of roads on animals are largely
owing to traffic noise. Although suggestive, most past studies of the effects of road noise on …

Projected effects of climate change on animal distributions primarily focus on consequences
of temperature and largely ignore impacts of altered precipitation. While much evidence …

In many regions of the world, forest management has reduced old forest and simplified forest
structure and composition. We hypothesized that such forest degradation has resulted in …

In the face of environmental change, species can evolve new physiological tolerances to
cope with altered climatic conditions or move spatially to maintain existing physiological …

In Chapter 1, we saw how it was possible to use simple methods to assess the species
composition in an area and to give an idea of their relative abundances. Here, we consider …