Total counts versus line transects for estimating abundance of small gopher tortoise populations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1595-1600

  Stober, Jonathan M ^a   Smith, Lora L ^a  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abundance estimate; burrow camera; density; Gopher tortoise; line transect distance sampling; total counts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BURROW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; GPS; IMAGING METHOD; LINE TRANSECT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; TURTLE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

GOPHERUS; GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 77956216054     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-163     Document Type: Article

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