bird monitoring data collected by the UK Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). ... Stuart E. Newson* & David G. Noble, British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford ...
Revista Catalana d’Ornitologia 24:107-117, 2008
The Breeding Bird Survey for mapping Britain’s birds: A preliminary assessment of performance at two spatial scales Stuart E. Newson & David G. Noble
Advances in the application of geostatistics in recent years have improved the precision of predicting occurrence or relative abundance at non-surveyed sites and so allow the potential for producing reliable maps over the entire area of interest. We evaluate the use of geostatistics for producing statistically valid maps of relative abundance at two spatial scales from annual bird monitoring data collected by the UK Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). Whilst development of an approach that optimizes the precision of this methodology is being explored currently, it is important to explore the extent to which the BBS, with about 2,000 1-km squares surveyed annually (
