Effective sociodemographic population assessment of elusive species in ecology and conservation management

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2903-2916

  Head, Josephine S ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Robbins, Martha M ^a   Rabanal, Luisa I ^a   Makaga, Loïc ^a   Kühl, Hjalmar S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Chimpanzee; Conservation management; Density; Elephant; Gorilla; Multiple species monitoring; Spatially explicit capture recapture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886992750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.670     Document Type: Article

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