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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Hierarchical distance sampling"”.
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Use and Survival of Greater Sage-Grouse in Meadows Managed for Non-Native Ungulate Grazing in Nevada
… hens at late brood-rearing habitat. I integrated distance sampling methods to simultaneously obtain data for estimating local population abundance and survival.In chapter 1, I used single-variate Cox proportional hazards models to investigate the effects of vegetative cover within the meadows on …
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Towards adaptive management of high-altitude grasslands: Ingula as a case study
… in time and in space. In Chapter 4 I use hierarchical distance sampling models which take into account both the detection and the biological process. To demonstrate this I used common grassland bird species which can easily be identified during monitoring. The downside of this approach is …
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Greater Sage-grouse habitat and demographic response to grazing by non-native ungulates
… grazers. In chapter 1 of my dissertation, I used hierarchical distance sampling of feces to investigate the distribution of horses and livestock on the landscape and whether they were impacting the vegetation components at sites available to sage grouse for breeding, sites chosen by sage grouse to …