Status and management of neotropical migratory birds

Finch, Deborah M.; Stangel, Peter W.

doi:10.2737/rm-gtr-229

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“…Initial concern over perceived population declines of some migratory songbirds led to the formation of the international bird conservation initiative called Partners in Flight (Finch and Stangel 1993). Partners in Flight (PIF) is a partnership of academic and private researchers, representatives of federal and state natural resource agencies, industry, and non-governmental natural resource or land management groups in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.…”

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Priority research needs for the conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds

Donovan¹,

Beardmore²,

Bonter³

et al. 2002

Journal of Field Ornithology

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Section: Received 26 February 2001; Accepted 13 November 2001mentioning

confidence: 99%

Priority research needs for the conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds

Donovan¹,

Beardmore²,

Bonter³

et al. 2002

Journal of Field Ornithology

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“…Indeed, entire symposia have been organized on the premise of massive declines in Neotropical migratory birds (Finch andStangel 1992, Hagan andJohnston 1992). But as the supposed declines have been examined in more detail, the picture doesn't seem nearly as clear as it should be.…”

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Special Feature: Continental Scale Ecology and Neotropical Migratory Birds: How to Detect Declines Amid the Noise

Maurer¹,

Villard²

1996

Ecology

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“…Partners in Flight, the multi-agency coalition responsible for initiating the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Program (Finch and Stangel 1993), has suggested that continental monitoring programs such as the BBS should be able to detect a 50% decline in the population of a species over 25 yr with 90% power (Butcher et al 1993). The purpose of the simulation study described here was to evaluate the bias and efficiency of three BBS trend-estimation methods in the context of linear-multiplicative declines of this magnitude and under three different geographic scenarios of population change.…”

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Monitoring Long‐Term Population Change: Why are there so Many Analysis Methods?

Thomas¹

1996

Ecology

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Ecological Society of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Ecology.Abstract. Monitoring long-term population change is an integral part of effective conservation-oriented research and management, and is central to the current debate on the status of Neotropical migrant land birds. However, the analysis of count data such as the Breeding Bird Survey is complicated by the subjective nature of trend estimation, and by limitations inherent to extensive, volunteer-based surveys, such as measurement error and missing data. A number of analysis methods have been used that differ in their approach to dealing with these complications and produce different estimates of population change when applied to the same data. There is, however, no consensus as to which method is the most suitable. Many analytical issues remain unresolved, such as model of trend, observer effects, treatment of missing observations, distribution of counts, and data selection criteria. These issues make it difficult to evaluate the relative merits of the methods, although a number of new approaches (nonlinear regression, Poisson regression, estimating equations estimates) offer promising solutions to some problems. I suggest the use of Monte Carlo simulations to empirically test the performance of the methods under realistic, spatially explicit scenarios of population change, and provide an example of the approach.

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Status and management of neotropical migratory birds

Cited by 65 publications

References 164 publications

Priority research needs for the conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds

Priority research needs for the conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds

Special Feature: Continental Scale Ecology and Neotropical Migratory Birds: How to Detect Declines Amid the Noise

Monitoring Long‐Term Population Change: Why are there so Many Analysis Methods?

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