AERIAL TELEMETRY ACCURACY:
An Abstract


TELEMETRY


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McCorquodale, S.M. 2000. Habitat ecology and vulnerability to hunting mortality of elk in the southcentral Washington Cascades. Ph.D. Dissertation. Univ. Montana, Missoula. 129 pp.
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AERIAL CENSUS

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Cogan, R.D. and D.R. Diefenbach. 1998. Effect of undercounting and model selection on a sightability-adjustment estimator for elk. J. Wildl. Manage. 62:269-279.

Eberhardt, L.L., R.A. Garrott, P.J. White, and P.J. Gogan. 1998. Alternative approaches to aerial censusing of elk. J. Wildl. Manage. 62:1046-1055.

Gasaway, W.C., S.D. Dubois, D.J. Reed, and S.J. Harbo. 1986. Estimating moose population parameters from aerial surveys. Biol. Pap. Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks. No. 22. 108 pp.

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Pollock, K.H. and W.L. Kendall. 1987. Visibility bias in aerial surveys: A review of estimation procedures. J. Wildl. Manage. 51:502-510.

Poole, K.G., G. Mowat, and D. Pritchard. 1999. Using GPS and GIS for navigation and mark-recapture for sightability correction in moose inventories. Alces 35:1-10.

Samuel, M.D. 1984. An evaluation of sightability in north central Idaho with application to aerial census and herd composition counts. Ph.D. Dissertation. Univ. Idaho, Moscow. 118pp.
Samuel, M.D. and K.H. Pollock. 1981. Correction of visibility bias in aerial surveys where animals occur in groups. J. Wildl. Manage. 45:993-997.

Samuel, M.D., E.O. Garton, M.W. Schlegal, and R.G. Carson. 1987. Visibility bias during aerial surveys of elk in north central Idaho. J. Wildl. Manage. 51:622-630.

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Unsworth, J.W., F.A. Leban, D.J. Leptich, E.O. Garton, and P. Zager. 1994. Aerial survey: user's manual. Second ed. Idaho Dep. Fish and Game, Boise, ID. 84 pp.

 

 


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