Investigation into survey techniques of large mammals: Surveyor competence and camera-trapping vs. transect-sampling

Bioscience Horizons

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-49

  Roberts, Nathan James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

camera trapping; efficiency; mammals; reliability; transect sampling; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860547996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17547431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biohorizons/hzr006     Document Type: Article

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