Estimating puma Puma concolor population size in a human-disturbed landscape in Brazil, using DNA mark-recapture data

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Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 250-257

  Miotto, Renata A ^a   Cervini, Marcelo ^b   Kajin, Maja ^c   Begotti, Rodrigo A ^d   Galetti, Pedro M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO SUDOESTE DA BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abundance; faecal DNA; Jolly Seber model; MARK; microsatellite; noninvasive analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; FECES; FELID; GENETIC MARKER; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; PROTECTED AREA; DNA; POPULATION MODELING;

BRAZIL; NORTH AMERICA; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 84902137196     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605312000841     Document Type: Article

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