Ungulate population monitoring in a tundra landscape: evaluating total counts and distance sampling accuracy

• Main Author: Le Moullec, Mathilde
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2014
• Subjects: Line transects; Detection probability; Poisson-Poisson sampling; Population size; State-space model; Rangifer; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecology: 488; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488; BIO-3950; Arctic; Svalbard; Sarsøyra; Rangifer tarandus; Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus; svalbard reindeer; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6554

Researchers and managers are constantly working towards decreasing monitoring uncertainties in order to improve inferences in population ecology. The solitary and sedentary Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) inhabit a high-Arctic tundra landscape highly suitable to compare accuracy...