Eli D. Striegel

Location and land cover uncertainty associated with stop-level data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)

The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) (https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/) has counted birds annually for over fifty-five years. Survey 'routes' each consist of 50 'stops' (point counts) placed along a route path. Inter-stop distances and stop locations can vary from route to route and from year to year, and precise locations of each stop are not typically recorded. This data set (and the associated R script) includes quantified uncertainty in BBS annual point count locations using digitized estimates of stop locations from the central United States. It also includes the necessary components to calculate the resulting land cover uncertainty for each annual point count (i.e., stop) and facilitates incorporation...

Categories: Data; Tags: Avian, Birds, Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), Habitat uncertainty, Informative priors, All tags... Land cover uncertainty, Location uncertainty, National Land Cover Database (NLCD), North America, Stop-level analyses, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, central United States, upper Midwest United States, Fewer tags