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A Double-Observer Approach for Estimating Detection Probability and Abundance From Point Counts

scholarly article

A Markov Decision Process for Managing Habitat for Florida Scrub-Jays

A Removal Model for Estimating Detection Probabilities From Point-Count Surveys

scholarly article

A hierarchical model for estimating density in camera-trap studies

article

A large-scale deforestation experiment: effects of patch area and isolation on Amazon birds

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

A multi‐state occupancy modelling framework for robust estimation of disease prevalence in multi‐tissue disease systems

scientific article published in October 2020

A new framework for analysing automated acoustic species detection data: Occupancy estimation and optimization of recordings post-processing

scientific article published in 2017

A robust design capture-recapture model with multiple age classes augmented with population assignment data

scientific article published in 2013

A strategy for monitoring and managing declines in an amphibian community

scientific article

AVIAN DISPERSAL AND DEMOGRAPHY: SCALING UP TO THE LANDSCAPE AND BEYOND

scientific article published in 2004

Accounting for false-positive acoustic detections of bats using occupancy models

scientific article published in 2014

Accumulating evidence in ecology: Once is not enough

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations: a brief history and future prospects

article by James D. Nichols et al published 22 November 2007 in Journal of Ornithology

Adult tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) survival on the polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated Housatonic River, Massachusetts, USA.

scientific article published in May 2007

Advances and applications of occupancy models

scientific article published in 2013

Age-Specific Survival and Philopatry in Three Species of European Ducks: A Long-Term Study

scientific article published in 1996

An adaptive-management framework for optimal control of hiking near golden eagle nests in Denali National Park

scientific article

An evaluation of density-dependent and density-independent influences on population growth rates in Weddell seals

scientific article published in April 2009

An inventory of terrestrial mammals at national parks in the Northeast Temperate Network and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

scholarly article in Scientific Investigations Report, 2008

Application of Threshold Concepts to Ecological Management Problems: Occupancy of Golden Eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska

scholarly article published 2014

Are ranger patrols effective in reducing poaching-related threats within protected areas?

scientific article published in 2017

Assessing tiger population dynamics using photographic capture-recapture sampling

scientific article published in November 2006

Augmenting Superpopulation Capture-Recapture Models with Population Assignment Data

scientific article published on December 14, 2010

COMDYN: software to study the dynamics of animal communities using a capture—recapture approach

scholarly article by James E. Hines et al published January 1999 in Bird Study

Chapter 3 Modeling Individual Animal Histories with Multistate Capture–Recapture Models

scientific article published in 2009

Concepts: Assessing Tiger Population Dynamics Using Capture–Recapture Sampling

scientific article published in 2017

Confronting uncertainty: Contributions of the wildlife profession to the broader scientific community

scientific article published in 2019

Conservation in the face of climate change: The roles of alternative models, monitoring, and adaptation in confronting and reducing uncertainty

article

Counting India's wild tigers reliably

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Demography of Birds in a Neotropical Forest: Effects of Allometry, Taxonomy, and Ecology

scientific article published in 1995

Density estimation in tiger populations: combining information for strong inference.

scientific article

Determinants of extinction-colonization dynamics in Mediterranean butterflies: the role of landscape, climate and local habitat features

scientific article

Determining Occurrence Dynamics when False Positives Occur: Estimating the Range Dynamics of Wolves from Public Survey Data

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Dynamic multistate site occupancy models to evaluate hypotheses relevant to conservation of Golden Eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska

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Dynamic occupancy models for analyzing species' range dynamics across large geographic scales

scientific article

Dynamics of a Black-capped Chickadee Population, 1958-1983

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ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY, COLONIZATION, AND LOCAL EXTINCTION WHEN A SPECIES IS DETECTED IMPERFECTLY

article

ESTIMATION OF TIGER DENSITIES IN INDIA USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURES AND RECAPTURES

article by K. Ullas Karanth & James D. Nichols published December 1998 in Ecology

Estimating Breeding Proportions and Testing Hypotheses about Costs of Reproduction with Capture-Recapture Data

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Estimating Species Richness: The Importance of Heterogeneity in Species Detectability

article

Estimating Tiger Abundance from Camera Trap Data: Field Surveys and Analytical Issues

scientific article published in 2011

Estimating detection and identification probabilities in maritime target acquisition

scientific article published on April 20, 2013

Estimating indices of range shifts in birds using dynamic models when detection is imperfect.

scientific article

Estimating occupancy and predicting numbers of gray wolf packs in Montana using hunter surveys

article

Estimating rates of local extinction and colonization in colonial species and an extension to the metapopulation and community levels

scientific article published in 2003

Estimating species-specific survival and movement when species identification is uncertain

scientific article published on February 2007

Estimation of Demographic Parameters in a Tiger Population from Long-term Camera Trap Data

scientific article published in 2011

Evaluation of nutria (Myocastor coypus) detection methods in Maryland, USA

Evidence for symmetrical bridging in methylated 7-norbornenyl cations

scholarly article

Factors affecting breeding dispersal of European ducks on Engure Marsh, Latvia

scientific article published in 2003

Field Practices: Assessing Tiger Population Dynamics Using Photographic Captures

scientific article published in 2017

Forest Fragmentation and Bird Community Dynamics: Inference at Regional Scales

scientific article published in 2001

Genetic Introgression and the Survival of Florida Panther Kittens

scientific article

Habitat-specific breeder survival of Florida Scrub-Jays: inferences from multistate models.

scientific article published in November 2009

Improving occupancy estimation when two types of observational error occur: non-detection and species misidentification

scientific article published in July 2011

Individual quality, survival variation and patterns of phenotypic selection on body condition and timing of nesting in birds

scientific article published on 19 January 2005

Inference Methods for Spatial Variation in Species Richness and Community Composition When Not All Species Are Detected

Inference Methods for Spatial Variation in Species Richness and Community Composition When Not All Species Are Detected

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Integrated hierarchical models to inform management of transitional habitat and the recovery of a habitat specialist

scientific article

Integrating Land Cover Modeling and Adaptive Management to Conserve Endangered Species and Reduce Catastrophic Fire Risk

scientific article

Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: comment

scientific article published in August 2006

Invader removal triggers competitive release in a threatened avian predator

scientific article published on 19 July 2021

Joint estimation of habitat dynamics and species interactions: disturbance reduces co-occurrence of non-native predators with an endangered toad.

scientific article

Landscape Use and Co-Occurrence Patterns of Neotropical Spotted Cats.

scientific article

Latitudinal gradients in North American avian species richness, turnover rates and extinction probabilities

scientific article published in 2013

Lawyer's advice on physician conduct with malpractice cases

scientific article

Likelihood analysis of species occurrence probability from presence-only data for modelling species distributions

article

Looking for a needle in a haystack: inference about individual fitness components in a heterogeneous population

article

MODELING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRDS

scientific article published in 1990

Making Great Leaps Forward: Accounting for Detectability in Herpetological Field Studies

article

Mathematical models and population cycles: A critical evaluation of a recent modeling effort

scientific article published in 1979

Mechanistic understanding of human-wildlife conflict through a novel application of dynamic occupancy models.

scientific article

Modeling false positive detections in species occurrence data under different study designs.

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Modeling habitat dynamics accounting for possible misclassification

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Modeling species occurrence dynamics with multiple states and imperfect detection

scientific article published in March 2009

Modelling occurrence and abundance of species when detection is imperfect

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Modelling postfledging survival and age-specific breeding probabilities in species with delayed maturity: A case study of Roseate Terns at Falkner Island, Connecticut

scientific article published in 2002

Monitoring for conservation

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

Monitoring for the Management of Disease Risk in Animal Translocation Programmes

scientific article

Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time

scientific article published in 2001

Monitoring of biological diversity – a response to Danielsen et al

Multilevel Learning in the Adaptive Management of Waterfowl Harvests: 20 Years and Counting

scientific article published in 2015

Multiscale patterns of movement in fragmented landscapes and consequences on demography of the snail kite in Florida

scientific article

Multiseason occupancy models for correlated replicate surveys

scientific article published in 2014

Multistate modeling of habitat dynamics: factors affecting Florida scrub transition probabilities

scientific article

Neighborhood and habitat effects on vital rates: expansion of the Barred Owl in the Oregon coast ranges

scientific article published in August 2012

Observer Visitation Frequency and Success of Mourning Dove Nests: A Field Experiment

scholarly article

Occupancy estimation and modeling with multiple states and state uncertainty

scientific article published in June 2007

Occupancy in Community-Level Studies

scientific article published in 2018

Occupancy models for citizen‐science data

scientific article published in 2019

Occurrence and distribution of Indian primates

article

On formally integrating science and policy: walking the walk

scientific article published in 2015

On the Estimation of Dispersal and Movement of Birds

scholarly article

On valuing patches: estimating contributions to metapopulation growth with reverse-time capture–recapture modelling

scientific article published on June 22, 2011

Partitioning global change: Assessing the relative importance of changes in climate and land cover for changes in avian distribution

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Patterns and determinants of mammal species occurrence in India

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Perturbation analysis for patch occupancy dynamics.

scientific article published in January 2009

Population Dynamics of the Concho Water Snake in Rivers and Reservoirs

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Presence-only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

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Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis

scientific article

Relaxing the closure assumption in occupancy models: staggered arrival and departure times

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Resilience Thinking and a Decision-Analytic Approach to Conservation: Strange Bedfellows or Essential Partners?

scientific article published in 2013

Sampling design trade-offs in occupancy studies with imperfect detection: examples and software

scientific article published in January 2007

Scale‐dependent effects of isolation on seasonal patch colonisation by two Neotropical freshwater fishes

scientific article published in 2018

Science deficiency in conservation practice: the monitoring of tiger populations in India

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Science, Conservation, and Camera Traps

scientific article published in 2011

Seeking a second opinion: uncertainty in disease ecology

scientific article

Sexual selection affects local extinction and turnover in bird communities.

scholarly article

Simultaneous modeling of habitat suitability, occupancy, and relative abundance: African elephants in Zimbabwe

scientific article

Size-Sex Variation in Survival Rates and Abundance of Pig Frogs, Rana grylio, in Northern Florida Wetlands

scientific article published in 1998

Sources of Variation in Waterfowl Survival Rates

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 1997

Sources of variation in survival and breeding site fidelity in three species of European ducks

scientific article published in 2002

Spatial patch occupancy patterns of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit

scientific article

Spatio-temporal dynamics of species richness in coastal fish communities.

scientific article published in September 2002

Spring hunting changes the regional movements of migrating greater snow geese

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Standards for documenting and monitoring bird reintroduction projects

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State-Dependent Resource Harvesting with Lagged Information about System States

scientific article

Strategic testing approaches for targeted disease monitoring can be used to inform pandemic decision-making

scientific article published in June 2021

Strengthening links between waterfowl research and management

scientific article published in 2017

Structured decision making as a conceptual framework to identify thresholds for conservation and management

scientific article published in July 2009

Structured decision making as a proactive approach to dealing with sea level rise in Florida

Surveillance theory applied to virus detection: a case for targeted discovery

Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Systems identification and the adaptive management of waterfowl in the United States

scholarly article published in September 2001

Temporal variability of local abundance, sex ratio and activity in the Sardinian chalk hill blue butterfly

scientific article

Temporal variability of local abundance, sex ratio and activity in the Sardinian chalk hill blue butterfly

scientific article published in January 2004

Testing hypotheses on distribution shifts and changes in phenology of imperfectly detectable species

scientific article published in 2015

Testing metapopulation concepts: effects of patch characteristics and neighborhood occupancy on the dynamics of an endangered lagomorph

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The AOU Conservation Committee Review of the Biology, Status, and Management of Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows: Final Report

scholarly article

The Role of Local Populations within a Landscape Context: Defining and Classifying Sources and Sinks

scientific article published in 2006

The U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystem Science Strategy, 2012-2022 - Advancing discovery and application through collaboration

scientific article published in 2012

The effects of habitat, climate, and Barred Owls on long-term demography of Northern Spotted Owls

scholarly article published in The Condor in February 2016

The estimation of size and change in composition of avian song repertoires

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The relationship between species detection probability and local extinction probability.

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The role of local populations within a landscape context: defining and classifying sources and sinks

scientific article

The roles of competition and habitat in the dynamics of populations and species distributions

scientific article published on February 2014

The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2010)

Thresholds for Conservation and Management: Structured Decision Making as a Conceptual Framework

Tigers and their prey: Predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance

scholarly article

To predict the niche, model colonization and extinction

scientific article published in January 2015

Two-species occupancy modelling accounting for species misidentification and non-detection

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U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems science strategy: advancing discovery and application through collaboration

Use of multiple dispersal pathways facilitates amphibian persistence in stream networks

scientific article

Use of the superpopulation approach to estimate breeding population size: an example in asynchronously breeding birds.

scientific article published in April 2011

Using imputation and mixture model approaches to integrate multi-state capture-recapture models with assignment information

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Variation in probability of first reproduction of Weddell seals

scientific article published on September 2006

What is the effect of poaching activity on wildlife species?

scientific article

When habitat matters: Habitat preferences can modulate co-occurrence patterns of similar sympatric species.

scientific article published on 26 July 2017