Producing Statistically Valid Maps of Species Abundance from UK Breeding Bird Survey Counts Using Geostatistical Analyst in ArcGIS

We examine the potential of the Geostatistical Analyst extension of ArcGIS for interpolating statistically valid maps of species abundance from survey data.

To explore this methodology, we use Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data for 2000, covering 11 species ranging from widespread and abundant to rare and localised species.