Estimates of forest elephant abundance: Projecting the relationship between precision and effort

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 217-228

  Walsh, Peter D ^a,d,e   White, Lee J T ^a   Mbina, Christian ^b   Idiata, Daniel ^b,c   Mihindou, Yves ^b   Maisels, Fiona ^a   Thibault, Marc ^b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b World Wildlife Fund   (Gabon)

^c Direction de la Faune et de la Chasse   (Gabon)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Optimal allocation; Survey design; Taylor's power law; Transects; Variance inflation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIOMONITORING; ELEPHANT;

AFRICA;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 0034918331     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00578.x     Document Type: Review

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