Monitoring Amur tiger populations: Characteristics of track surveys in snow

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1150-1159

  Hayward, Gregory D ^a   Miquelle, Dale G ^b   Smirnov, Evgeny N ^c   Nations, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c Sikhote Alin Zapovednik ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amur tiger; Conservation; Monitoring; Panthera tigris altaica; Power; Russian Far East; Sikhote Alin Zapovednik; Survey design; Trend

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FELID; MONITORING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRACKING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PANTHERA TIGRIS ALTAICA;

EID: 0036975026     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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