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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PeerJ Inc.
2019-10-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/7783.pdf |