Monitoring an Endangered savannah ungulate, Grevy's zebra Equus grevyi: Choosing a method for estimating population densities

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Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 410-419

  Zero, Victoria H ^a   Sundaresan, Siva R ^b,c   O'Brien, Timothy G ^d   Kinnaird, Margaret F ^a  

^a MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^b Denver Zoological Foundation   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; camera traps; capture recapture; density estimation; distance sampling; Equus grevyi; Kenya; ungulate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROUP SIZE; MONITORING; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGELAND; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

KENYA;

EID: 84880759991     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605312000324     Document Type: Article

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