Much of contemporary ecological theory and conservation biology is concerned with
variation in species abundance or occurrence, or the dynamics of abundance and …

The methods described throughout this book will enable researchers to noninvasively detect
most, if not all, terrestrial carnivore species that occur in North America, as well as myriad …

Now is an exciting time to study carnivore ecology via noninvasive sampling methods.
Technological and methodological advances, and new techniques for data analysis, have …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

Species distribution models (SDM) are tools used to determine environmental features that
influence the geographic distribution of species' abundance and have been used to analyze …

Wildlife management often hinges upon an accurate assessment of population density.
Although undeniably useful, many of the traditional approaches to density estimation such …

Carnivores are difficult to survey due, in large part, to their relative rarity across the
landscape and wariness toward humans. Several noninvasive methods may aid in …

Presence–absence data are used widely in analysis of wildlife–habitat relationships. Failure
to detect a species' presence in an occupied habitat patch is a common sampling problem …

In ecology, a study aiming to collect data over a relatively broad spatial scale and through
some sampling scheme is often called a survey. It is generally aimed at defining the status of …

Strong parametric assumptions are often made when formulating statistical models in
practice. In the field of ecology, these assumptions have sparked repeated debates about …