title: On predicting abundance from occupancy.
abstract: There is growing interest in predicting the abundance of a species in a region from the occupancy of cells in a uniform grid overlaid on the region. When the number of individuals in each cell follows a negative binomial distribution, prediction is in general not possible from the number of unoccupied cells alone. A prediction method based on the number of unoccupied cells and the number containing a single individual is described and shown to work well on simulated and real data.
authors.affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. asolow@whoi.edu
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Solow
authors.forename: Woollcott K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D016010:Binomial Distribution; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011156:Population Density; D013045:Species Specificity; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*