Estimating abundance of mountain lions from unstructured spatial sampling

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1551-1561

  Russell, Robin E ^a,d   Royle, J Andrew ^b   Desimone, Richard ^a   Schwartz, Michael K ^c   Edwards, Victoria L ^a   Pilgrim, Kristy P ^c   McKelvey, Kevin S ^c  

^a WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; cougars; genetic sampling; Montana; Puma concolor; snow tracking; spatial capture recapture; spatial models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FELID; HAIR; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANGE SIZE; SAMPLING; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORY; TRACKING;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867799435     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.412     Document Type: Article

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