Two-stage estimation of ungulate abundance in Mediterranean areas using pellet group count

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-314

  Fattorini, Lorenzo ^a   Ferretti, Francesco ^a   Pisani, Caterina ^a   Sforzi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Museo di Storia Naturale della Maremma   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clearance count; Empirical inclusion probabilities; Horvitz Thompson estimation; Plot sampling; Spatial sampling; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROTECTED AREA; STRATEGIC APPROACH; STRATIFICATION; UNGULATE;

GROSSETO [TUSCANY]; ITALY; MAREMMA REGIONAL PARK; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TUSCANY;

UNGULATA;

EID: 79957623123     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0133-0     Document Type: Article

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