An assessment of indices of relative and absolute abundance for monitoring populations of small mammals

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1289-1296

  Hopkins, Heidi L ^a,b,c,d   Kennedy, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b Elko Field Office Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^d University of Memphis ^*

Author keywords

Absolute abundance; Catch unit effort; Mark recapture; Population size; Relative abundance; Small mammals; Species richness

Indexed keywords

INDEX METHOD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONITORING; POPULATION SIZE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL MAMMAL;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 15544382585     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2004)032[1289:AAOIOR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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