Detecting the elusive Scottish wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris using camera trapping

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Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 207-215

  Kilshaw, Kerry ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Kitchener, Andrew C ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Felis silvestris silvestris; Monitoring; Scotland; Scottish wildcat; Spatially explicit capture recapture

Indexed keywords

FELIS CATUS; FELIS SILVESTRIS;

EID: 84926418999     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605313001154     Document Type: Article

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