Development and evaluation of an accounting model for estimating deer population sizes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 180, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 345-357

  Grund, Marrett D ^a,b   Woolf, Alan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Harvest management; Odocoileus virginianus; Population modeling; Population monitoring; Sensitivity analysis; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

DEER; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

MILLE LACS WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 4744344378     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.04.025     Document Type: Article

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