Estimating social group size of Eurasian badgers Meles meles by genotyping remotely plucked single hairs

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-207

  Scheppers, Thomas L J ^a   Frantz, Alain C ^b   Schaul, Michel ^b   Engel, Edmée ^b   Breyne, Peter ^c   Schley, Laurent ^d   Roper, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSÉE NATIONAL D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Luxembourg)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^d Service de la Conservation de la Nature   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Hair DNA; Meles meles; Molecular ecology; Non invasive DNA; Population size; Remote censusing

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 34548034439     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[195:ESGSOE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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