Reliability of noninvasive genetic census of otters compared to field censuses

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1097-1107

  Arrendal, Johanna ^a   Vilà, Carles ^a   Björklund, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Faeces; Individual identification; Monitoring; Population size; Snow tracking

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MUSTELID; PINNIPED; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRACKING;

CARNIVORA; LUTRINAE;

EID: 34547473011     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9266-y     Document Type: Article

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