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1 June 2005 TRACK COUNT CALIBRATION TO ESTIMATE DENSITY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER (ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS) IN MEXICAN DRY TROPICAL FOREST
Salvador Mandujano
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Abstract

Track counting is a quick, easy, cost-effective technique to estimate the population density of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). By employing the double-count procedure, I generated 2 models in which track counts were calibrated to estimate the density of deer in dry tropical forest in Chamela on the Mexican Pacific Coast. For both models, I calibrated a track index using density obtained from the line-transect method as a reference. The first model was based on simple linear regression and the second on the strip-transect method. I discuss the usefulness of these models for monitoring local populations as well as possible applications in other regions.

Salvador Mandujano "TRACK COUNT CALIBRATION TO ESTIMATE DENSITY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER (ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS) IN MEXICAN DRY TROPICAL FOREST," The Southwestern Naturalist 50(2), 223-229, (1 June 2005). https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0223:TCCTED]2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 23 October 2004; Published: 1 June 2005
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