Importance of accounting for detection heterogeneity when estimating abundance: The case of french wolves;Importancia de considerar la heterogeneidad de detección al estimar la abundancia: El caso de lobos franceses

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 621-626

  Cubaynes, Sarah ^a,b   Pradel, Roger ^a   Choquet, Rémi ^a   Duchamp, Christophe ^c   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^d,e   Lebreton, Jean Dominique ^a   Marboutin, Eric ^c   Miquel, Christian ^f   Reboulet, Anne Marie ^a   Poillot, Carole ^f   Taberlet, Pierre ^f   Gimenez, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; E SURGE; Individual heterogeneity; Mark recapture; Mixture models; Multievent model; Population size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CANID; CONSERVATION STATUS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; FECES; FRANCE; HAIR; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOLF;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; FECES; FRANCE; HAIR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; WOLVES;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 77954168018     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01431.x     Document Type: Article

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