Improving size estimates of open animal populations by incorporating information on age

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 666-669

  Manly, Bryan F J ^a   McDonald, Trent L ^a   Amstrup, Steven C ^b   Regehr, Eric V ^c  

^a WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Logistic regression; Population size estimation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038038279     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0666:ISEOOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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