Assessing small mammal abundance with track-tube indices and mark-recapture population estimates

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 250-260

  Wiewel, Andrew S ^a,b   Clark, William R ^a   Sovada, Marsha A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Index; Livetrapping; Mark recapture; Meadow vole; Microtus pennsylvanicus; Population estimate; Track tube

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRASSLAND; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RODENT; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS;

EID: 33847669301     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-098R1.1     Document Type: Article

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