Estimating low-density snowshoe hare populations using fecal pellet counts

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 771-781

  Murray, Dennis L ^a   Roth, James D ^a   Ellsworth, Ethan ^a   Wirsing, Aaron J ^a   Steury, Todd D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ROBUST ESTIMATOR;

ECOLOGY;

FECAL PELLET; LAGOMORPH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

UNITED STATES;

LAGOMORPHA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0036114437     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z02-027     Document Type: Article

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