Papers presented at a workshop held in Oct. 1993 at the Marconi Conference Center, Tomales Bay, Calif. The papers were updated during 2001-2003.
Contents:
Use of mist nets as a tool for bird population monitoring / Erica H. Dunn and C. John Ralph -- Effects of mist-netting frequency on capture rates at Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) stations / Kenneth M. Burton and David F. DeSante -- Monitoring productivity with multiple mist-net stations / C. John Ralph, Kimberly Hollinger, and Sherri L. Miller -- Influence of mist-netting intensity on demographic investigations of avian populations / Grant Ballard, Geoffrey R. Geupel, and Nadav Nur --
Methodological considerations of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program / David F. DeSante ... [et al.] -- Current practices in the British Trust for Ornithology Constant Effort Sites scheme and comparisons of temporal changes in mist-net captures with changes in spot-mapping counts at the extensive scale / Will J. Peach, Stephen R. Baillie, and Stephen T. Buckland -- Relationship of juveniles captured in constant-effort netting with local abundance / Chris R. du Feu and John M. McMeeking --
Estimates of adult survival, capture probability, and recapture probability : evaluating and validating constant-effort mist netting / Nadav Nur, Geoffrey R. Geupel, and Grant Ballard -- Estimating adult survival rates from between-year recaptures in the British Trust for Ornithology Constant Effort Sites scheme / Will J. Peach and Stephen R. Baillie -- A European example of standardized mist netting in population studies of birds / Andreas Kaiser and Peter Berthold -- Determinig productivity indices from age composition of migrants captured for banding : problems and possible solutions / David J.T. Hussell --
Investigation of productivity indices derived from banding of fall migrants / Erica H. Dunn, David J.T. Hussell, and Raymond J. Adams -- Optimizing the allocation of count days in a migration monitoring program / Len Thomas ... [et al.] -- Use of mist nets for monitoring landbird autumn population trends, and comparison with other methods / Peter Berthold -- A comparison of three count methods for monitoring songbird abundance during spring migration : capture, census, and estimated totals / Erica H. Dunn ... [et al.] -- A comparison of constant-effort mist netting results at a coastal and inland New England site during migration / Christopher C. Rimmer ... [et al.] -- Mist netting trans-Gulf migrants at coastal stopover sites : the influence of spatial and temporal variability on capture data / Theodore R. Simons, Frank R. Moore, and Sidney A. Gauthreaux --
Bird population studies in Puerto Rico using mist nets : general patterns and comparisons with point counts / John Faaborg, Wayne J. Arendt, and Katie M. Dugger -- Coping with mist-net capture-rate bias : canopy height and several extrinsic factors / Elizabeth P. Mallory, Nicholas Brokaw, and Steven D. Hess -- Use of mist nets for study of Neotropical bird comunities / Andrew A. Whitman -- Some consequences of using counts of birds banded as indices to populations / John R. Sauer and William A. Link -- On the use of capture-recapture models in mist-net studies / William L. Kendall ... [et al.] -- Effectiveness of informal banding training at three western Canadian banding stations / Brenda C. Dale --
Recommendations for the use of mist nets for inventory and monitoring of bird populations / C. John Ralph ... [et al.]
