Performance of passive integrated transponders (pit tags) as a marking system for common brushtail possums trichosurus vulpecula-a cautionary tale

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-214

  Eymann, Jutta ^a   Webley, Lee S ^a   Cooper, Desmond W ^b   Herbert, Catherine A ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of News South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

Identification; Mark recapture; Marsupial; Microchip failure; PIT tag; Probability of identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650200593     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM06029     Document Type: Article

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