Estimating species abundance from occurrence

He, F. and Gaston, K.J. (2000) Estimating species abundance from occurrence. The American Naturalist, 156 (5). pp. 553-559. ISSN 0003-0147

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Abstract

The number of individuals, or the abundance, of a species in an area is a fundamental ecological parameter and a critical consideration when making management and conservation decisions (Andrewartha and Birch 1954; Krebs 1978; Gaston 1994; Caughley and Gunn 1996). However, unless the scale is very fine or localized (e.g., in a measurable habitat or a forest stand), abundance is not readily determined. At coarse or regional scales for many species, information on commonness and rarity is, at best, limited to a map of their presence or absence from recording units in a specified time frame. Various species data at large scales are increasingly documented in this presence/absence format

Item Type:	Article
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2000 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	area-area curve, binomial distribution, presence/absence map, spatial scales, species abundance, species occupancy
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biological Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Repository Assistant
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2006
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2013 16:49
Published Version:	http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AN/journal/conten...
Status:	Published
Publisher:	The University of Chicago Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/1446

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