Effects of trapping effort and trap placement on estimating abundance of Humboldt’s flying squirrels

Live trapping is a common tool used to assess demography of small mammals. However, live-trapping is often expensive and stressful to captured individuals. Thus, assessing the relative tradeoffs among study goals, project expenses, and animal well-being is necessary. Here, we evaluated how apparent...

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Main Authors: Matthew J. Weldy, Todd M. Wilson, Damon B. Lesmeister, Clinton W. Epps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7783.pdf