Learning to count: Adapting population monitoring for Endangered huemul deer Hippocamelus bisulcus to meet conservation objectives

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Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 516-522

  Wittmer, Heiko U ^a   Corti, Paulo ^b   Saucedo, Cristián ^c   Galaz, José Luis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Patagonia Park ^*  (Chile)

^d Gerencia Reas Protegidas y Medio Ambiente   (Chile)

Author keywords

Abundance; Chile; Hippocamelus bisulcus; huemul; matrix model; monitoring; Patagonia; ungulate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DEER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONITORING; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHILE; PATAGONIA;

CERVIDAE; HIPPOCAMELUS BISULCUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 79952929894     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310001018     Document Type: Article

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