Reliability and precision of pellet-group counts for estimating landscape-level deer density

Human-Wildlife Interactions

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-68

  deCalesta, David S ^a,b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimates; Human wildlife conflicts; Odocoileus virginianus; Pellet group technique; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84882245336     PISSN: 21553858     EISSN: 21553874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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