Mark-resight approach as a tool to estimate population size of one of the world's smallest goose populations

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-139

  Clausen, Kevin Kuhlmann ^a   Fælled, Casper Cæsar ^a   Clausen, Preben ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; WATERFOWL;

DENMARK;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA; BRANTA BERNICLA HROTA;

EID: 84873643457     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2012.733338     Document Type: Article

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