Application of photographic capture-recapture modelling to estimate demographic parameters for male Asian elephants

Animal Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 391-399

  Goswami, Varun R ^a,b   Madhusudan, M D ^c   Karanth, K Ullas ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society India   (India)

^c NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Abundance; India; Individual identification; Open population; Population density

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ELEPHANT; HABITAT LOSS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 34547849439     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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