Improving large scale mark-recapture estimates for American black bear populations

Ursus

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-23

  Belant, Jerrold L ^a   Etter, Dwayne R ^b   Mayhew, Sarah L ^b   Visser, Larry G ^b   Friedrich, Paul D ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

American black bear; biomarker; harvest; mark recapture; Michigan; population estimate; tetracycline; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

POPULUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 79960364735     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/URSUS-D-10-00011.1     Document Type: Article

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