One or two cameras per station? Monitoring jaguars and other mammals in the Amazon

Ecological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 639-648

  Negrões, Nuno ^a,b,c   Sollmann, Rahel ^c,d   Fonseca, Carlos ^a   Jácomo, Anah T A ^c   Revilla, Eloy ^b   Silveira, Leandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Jaguar Conservation Fund   (Brazil)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Closed mark recapture models; Panthera onca; Population density; Relative abundance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARNIVORE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FELID; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONITORING; PHOTOGRAPH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PRECISION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESEARCH WORK; TRAPPING;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA;

EID: 84861339186     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-012-0938-4     Document Type: Article

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