Estimating Size and Trend of the North Interlake Woodland Caribou Population Using Fecal-DNA and Capture-Recapture Models

ABSTRACT A critical step in recovery efforts for endangered and threatened species is the monitoring of population demographic parameters. As part of these efforts, we evaluated the use of fecal-DNA based capture-recapture methods to estimate population sizes and population rate of change for the No...

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Main Authors: Peter N Hettinga, Micheline Manseau, Paul J Wilson
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Rangifer tarandus
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1078.6277
http://www.d.umn.edu/biology/documents/KoitzschPaper1.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT A critical step in recovery efforts for endangered and threatened species is the monitoring of population demographic parameters. As part of these efforts, we evaluated the use of fecal-DNA based capture-recapture methods to estimate population sizes and population rate of change for the North Interlake woodland caribou herd (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Manitoba, Canada. This herd is part of the boreal population of woodland caribou, listed as threatened under the federal Species at Risk Act

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