Quantification of badger (Meles meles) sett activity as a method of predicting badger numbers

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-56

  Wilson, G J ^a,b   Delahay, R J ^a   De Leeuw, A N S ^a   Spyvee, P D ^a   Handoll, D ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Central Science Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger; Badger sett; Index; Meles meles; Monitoring; Population size

Indexed keywords

DEN; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONITORING; MUSTELID; POPULATION SIZE;

MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 0037278335     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836902002947     Document Type: Article

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