Estimating grizzly and black bear population abundance and trend in Banff National Park using noninvasive genetic sampling.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Michael A Sawaya, Jeffrey B Stetz, Anthony P Clevenger, Michael L Gibeau, Steven T Kalinowski
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Canada; Huggins; Lambda; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034777; https://doaj.org/article/5f10d7c1f4024c8791b1294a76ea771b

We evaluated the potential of two noninvasive genetic sampling methods, hair traps and bear rub surveys, to estimate population abundance and trend of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and black bear (U. americanus) populations in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Using Huggins closed population mark-recap...