Bird population trend analyses for a monitoring scheme with a highly structured sampling design
M. R. Rieger, C. Grueneberg, M. Oberhaus, S. Trautmann, M. Parepa, N. Anthes
The paper develops a GAMM-based workflow to analyze bird population trends from structured monitoring data, addressing spatial bias, observer variation, and zero-inflation, and validates it against existing methods.
bioRxiv · Jun 30, 2024Ecology