Substrate and species constraints on the use of track incidences to estimate African large carnivore abundance
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1 Department of Nature Conservation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa 2 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 3 Department of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 4 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Tubney, UK 5 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK 6 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA 7 Scientific Services, SANParks, Skukuza, South Africa
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تاریخ انتشار 2010