TY - JOUR
AU - Rothery Peter
AU - Roy D. B.
AB - We investigate the use of generalized additive models for describing patterns in butterfly transect counts during the flight period. Models were applied to sets of simulated data and to transect counts from the British Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS) recorded at a large number of sites in the UK. The models successfully described patterns in counts in a range of species with different life cycles and the approach can be used to estimate an index of butterfly abundance allowing for missing counts. The method could be extended to include other factors such as temperature, sunshine, windspeed and time of day, and to examine potential biases arising from variation in these factors.
BT - Journal of Applied Statistics
DA - 2001
DB - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
IS - 7
LA - eng
N2 - We investigate the use of generalized additive models for describing patterns in butterfly transect counts during the flight period. Models were applied to sets of simulated data and to transect counts from the British Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS) recorded at a large number of sites in the UK. The models successfully described patterns in counts in a range of species with different life cycles and the approach can be used to estimate an index of butterfly abundance allowing for missing counts. The method could be extended to include other factors such as temperature, sunshine, windspeed and time of day, and to examine potential biases arising from variation in these factors.
PY - 2001
SN - 0266-4763
SP - 897
EP - 909
T2 - Journal of Applied Statistics
TI - Application of generalized additive models to butterfly transect count data
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02664760120074979
VL - 28
Y2 - 2013-07-15 14:35:00
ER -