The difficulty of estimating population densities of nocturnal forest mammals from transect counts of animals

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 246, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 466-468

  Duckworth, J W ^a  

^a East Redham Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032435221     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1998.tb00183.x     Document Type: Article

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