Methods of monitoring red foxes Vulpes vulpes and badgers Meles meles: Are field signs the answer?

Mammal Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 75-98

  Sadlier, Linda M J ^a   Webbon, Charlotte C ^a   Baker, Philip J ^a   Harris, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badger; Fox; Monitoring; Sign surveys

Indexed keywords

CANID; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MUSTELID; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MELES MELES; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 1542506929     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-1838.2003.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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