Evaluating Monitoring Strategies and Habitat for Tortoises in the Sonoran Desert
Effective conservation requires efficient population monitoring, which can be challenging for rare species like the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). We compared two alternative survey methods that can be used to monitor tortoise populations: distance sampling and site occupancy estimation. In 2...
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The University of Arizona.
2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193429 |