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Animal Population Monitoring: A Unified Conceptual Framework

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As emphasized in the previous two chapters, monitoring of tiger and prey populations must necessarily rest on a solid foundation of established statistical theory and associated methodological practice.

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  1. Crofton, MD, USA

    James D. Nichols

  2. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), New York, NY, USA

    K. Ullas Karanth

  3. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  4. Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  5. National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  6. Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru, India

    Arjun M. Gopalaswamy & Mohan Delampady

  7. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Arjun M. Gopalaswamy

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    K. Ullas Karanth

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    James D. Nichols

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Nichols, J.D., Karanth, K.U., Gopalaswamy, A.M., Delampady, M. (2017). Animal Population Monitoring: A Unified Conceptual Framework. In: Karanth, K., Nichols, J. (eds) Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5436-5_3

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