Using simulation to explore the functional relationships of terrestrial carnivore population indices

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2761-2769

  MacFarland, David M ^a   Van Deelen, Timothy R ^b  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Density; Detection probability; Population index; Station based index; Terrestrial carnivore

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DETECTION PROBABILITY; POPULATION INDEX; STATION-BASED INDEX; TERRESTRIAL CARNIVORE;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOMONITORING; CARNIVORE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HETEROGENEITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE SIZE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79959657062     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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