Differential Vulnerability of black bears to trap and camera sampling and resulting biases in mark-recapture estimates

Ursus

Volumn 12, Issue , 2000, Pages 211-226

  Noyce, Karen V ^a   Garshelis, David L ^a   Coy, Pamela L ^a  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Black bears; Camera sampling; Capture heterogeneity; Hunting; Mark recapture; Population estimation; Risk ratios; Sample bias; Trap vulnerability; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008374461     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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