Robustness of capture-recapture estimators to sample biases in a cyclic snowshoe hare population

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 530-542

  Boulanger, John G ^a   Krebs, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

capture recapture; Monte Carlo simulation; program CAPTURE; snowshoe hare; trap saturation bias

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; SNOWSHOE HARE;

LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0030304556     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404982     Document Type: Article

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