Estimating snow leopard population abundance using photography and capture-recapture techniques

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 772-781

  Jackson, Rodney M ^a   Roe, Jerry D ^b,e   Wangchuk, Rinchen ^c   Hunter, Don O ^d  

^a Snow Leopard Conservancy   (United States)

^b Nomad Ecological Consulting   (United States)

^c Snow Leopard Conservancy India   (India)

^d FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e Nomad Ecological Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Camera trap; Capture mark recapture; Density estimation; Identification; India; Photography; Snow leopard; Uncia uncia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FELID; INFRARED IMAGERY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HEMIS NATIONAL PARK; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LADAKH; SOUTH ASIA;

FELIDAE; UNCIA UNCIA;

EID: 33751226902     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[772:ESLPAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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