Online Avian Biodiversity Survey

SURVEY on... Backyard birding in the Chesapeake region

One instance of the online survey involving choice experiments concerning backyard birds. Species richness (the number of different species of birds) is the most common measure of avian biodiversity. However, species richness can be the same whether there is one member of each species, or thousands of members of each species. This survey includes choice tasks that describe how conservation measures could affect the abundance of individual species, making it possible to employ alternative measures of biodiversity.