Applicability of viewshed analysis to wildlife population estimation

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 277-285

  Maichak, Eric J ^a   Schuler, Krysten L ^b  

^a Box 190 ^*  (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ESTIMATION; UNGULATE; VIEWSHED;

BISON; BISON BISON; BUBALUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 7744231884     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2004)152[0277:AOVATW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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