Mark-resight population estimation with imperfect observations

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 880-884

  Gardner, Shea N ^a   Mangel, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mark resight; Monte Carlo; Observation error; Population estimate; Resighting error; Sightability; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008910934     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265508     Document Type: Article

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