Monitoring population size of red deer Cervus elaphus: An evaluation of two types of census data from Norway

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-298

  Mysterud, Atle ^a   Meisingset, Erling L ^b   Veiberg, Vebjørn ^a   Langvatn, Rolf ^c   Solberg, Erling J ^c   Loe, Leif Egil ^a   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age structure; Catch per unit effort; Cohort analysis; Farmland; Harvest effort; Population density; Seen deer; Spring counts

Indexed keywords

ALCES ALCES; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 35349023864     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[285:MPSORD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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