AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF USING COUNTS OF INDIVIDUALS CAPTURED AS INDICES OF POPULATION SIZE
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- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 81 (4) , 1035-1045
- https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<1035:aetouc>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Simple counts of individuals are commonly used in studies of mammalian populations. However, such counts are known to routinely underestimate populatKeywords
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