Noninvasive hair sampling and genetic tagging of co-distributed fishers and American martens

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-34

  Williams, Bronwyn W ^a,c   Etter, Dwayne R ^b   Linden, Daniel W ^a   Millenbah, Kelly F ^a   Winterstein, Scott R ^a   Scribner, Kim T ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Fisher; Genetic tagging; Hair snare; Marten; Martes; Noninvasive genetic sampling; Population estimation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAIR; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MUSTELID; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; REINTRODUCTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; OTTAWA NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

MARTES; MARTES AMERICANA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 58449127790     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-429     Document Type: Article

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