Testing assumptions of mark-recapture protocols for estimating population size using Australian mound-building, subterranean termites

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-159

  Evans, Theodore A ^a   Lenz, Michael ^a   Gleeson, Patrick V ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Coptotermes; Disturbance; Foraging behaviour; Lincoln index; Mound building; Nasutitermes; Nile Blue A; Triple mark recapture; Weighted mean

Indexed keywords

MARK-RECAPTURE; MOUND BUILDING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SUBTERRANEAN TERMIRE; TERMITE MOUND;

AUSTRALIAN;

COPTOTERMES LACTEUS; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES EXITIOSUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0031833214     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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