Combining camera-trapping and noninvasive genetic data in a spatial capture-recapture framework improves density estimates for the jaguar

Biological Conservation

Volumn 167, Issue , 2013, Pages 242-247

  Sollmann, Rahel ^a,b   Tôrres, Natália Mundim ^a,c   Furtado, Mariana Malzoni ^a,d   De Almeida Jácomo, Anah Tereza ^a   Palomares, Francisco ^e   Roques, Severine ^e   Silveira, Leandro ^a  

^a Instituto Onça Pintada   (Brazil)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brazil; Caatinga; Carnivores; Estimator performance; Panthera onca; Population estimation; Scat survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CAATINGA; DATA SET; FECES; FELID; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84884129900     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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