Empirical evaluation of non-invasive capture-mark-recapture estimation of population size based on a single sampling session

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 843-852

  Puechmaille, Sebastien J ^a   Petit, Eric J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Chiroptera; CMR; Elusive species; Faecal DNA; Genetic tag; Likelihood; Microsatellite; Population size; Rhinolophus hipposideros

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENOTYPE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MODELING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING;

CHIROPTERA; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS;

EID: 34347393469     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01321.x     Document Type: Article

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