The understanding of population dynamics is a central issue for managing large mammals.
Modeling has allowed population ecologists to increase their knowledge about complex …

Effective management and conservation of wildlife populations require reliable estimates of
population size, which can be difficult and costly to obtain. We evaluated how precision in …

An objective multivariate technique is described for identification of individual tigers
Panthera tigris from their pugmarks. Tracings and photographs of hind pugmarks were …

Positive interspecific and intraspecific relationships between local abundance and regional
occupancy have been widely documented. The former are essentially pervasive. These …

Northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) are consistently found through the
year in the Gully, a prominent submarine canyon on the edge of the Scotian Shelf …

Field survival of Aedes aegypti females is a key parameter for estimating the dengue
transmission potential of a mosquito population. The objectives of this study were to explore …

Heterogeneity of individual capture probabilities (pi) is a commonly acknowledged cause of
bias in capture-recapture studies of open populations. We propose and evaluate an …

Abstract The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has recently developed a Wildlife
Health Framework to respond to the need of members to manage the risk from emerging …

Effective entomological surveillance planning stresses a careful consideration of
methodology, trapping technologies, and analysis techniques. Herein, the basic principles …

Electrofishing is one of the most widely used methods for sampling salmonid fishes because
it is relatively inexpensive and easy to carry out in a variety of conditions and has relatively …