An improved procedure to estimate wolf abundance using non-invasive genetic sampling and capture-recapture mixture models

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-64

  Caniglia, Romolo ^a   Fabbri, Elena ^a   Cubaynes, Sarah ^b   Gimenez, Olivier ^b   Lebreton, Jean Dominique ^b   Randi, Ettore ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Capture recapture analyses; Individual detection heterogeneity; Multilocus genotypes; Non invasive genetics; Population size estimation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANID; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; RARE SPECIES;

APENNINES; ITALY;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 84856235060     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0266-1     Document Type: Article

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