Providing reliable and accurate genetic capture-mark-recapture estimates in a cost-effective way

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-456

  McKelvey, Kevin S ^a   Schwartz, Michael K ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Binomial; Capture; DNA; Dropout; Estimation; Genetic; Genotyping; Mark; Microsatellite; Molecular tagging; Non invasive; Population

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DNA; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC MARKER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 3843118929     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0453:PRAAGC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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