Estimating abundance of the remnant Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) population using multiple noninvasive genetic data sources

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: CIUCCI, Paolo, V. Gervasi, BOITANI, Luigi, J. Boulanger, D. Paetkau, R. Privee, E. Tosoni
• Other Authors: Ciucci, Paolo, V., Gervasi, Boitani, Luigi, J., Boulanger, D., Paetkau, R., Privee, E., Tosoni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society of Mammalogists 2015
• Subjects: Apennine brown bear; hair snagging; Huggins model; mark–recapture; noninvasive genetic sampling; population size; program MARK; small population; Ursus; Huggins; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/619585; https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyu029; http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gyu029?

Accurate and precise estimates of population size are critical for effective management, but can be particularly difficult to achieve for small populations of large carnivores. We approached this challenge by integrating multiple noninvasive data sources into a DNA-based, mark–recapture framework to...