title: Line transect sampling in small regions.
abstract: This article develops an approach to estimating population abundance from line transect surveys that uses a calibration survey to estimate the detection function, which is then employed as a weight function in constructing the abundance estimate. Nonparametric methods of estimating the detection function via local regression and via a kernel density estimator are considered. The proposed methods are evaluated using a set of Western Australian plant data and weed enumeration data.
authors.affiliation: New South Wales Agricultural Research Centre, Trangie, Australia.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Melville
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Welsh
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D010944:Plants; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014904:Western Australia