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dc.contributor.authorPunjabi, Girish Arjun
dc.contributor.authorAthreya, Vidya
dc.contributor.authorLinnell, John Durrus
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-07T11:11:36Z
dc.date.available2023-07-07T11:11:36Z
dc.date.created2013-03-18T13:15:19Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationTropical Conservation Science. 2012, 5 (4), 510-520.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1940-0829
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3077096
dc.description.abstractFree-ranging dogs (Canis familiaris) are a major conservation issue in the tropics and adopt many ecological roles, alternatively functioning as predators, prey, or competitors of wildlife in diverse environments. Dogs are also potential reservoirs of disease that can be transmitted to both wildlife and people. Therefore a range of management interventions have been suggested to control dog populations. In order to monitor interventions to decrease dog populations, estimates of their population size are important and such methods need to be time- and cost-effective. We describe here a potential method that uses natural marks on dogs along with counts of non-marked individuals in a mark-resight framework to estimate the abundance of free-ranging dogs in a suburban area in India. Using the logit-normal mixed effects estimator to incorporate the effects of individual resighting heterogeneity, we found a total (Nj) of 680.64 ± 34.06 (95% CI = 617.22 – 751.35) dogs in the study area, with an overall mean resighting probability of 0.53 ± 0.03 (95% CI = 0.47 – 0.58). This corresponds to a density estimate of 57 dogs km−2 (CI = 51 – 63). Given that certain assumptions are met, this method may be useful to estimate abundance of dogs where other kinds of marks may be unavailable or impractical. This method may be applied to other species of feral animals as well, where some proportion of a population has distinct natural marks.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectNatural marksen_US
dc.subjectfree-rangingen_US
dc.subjectCanis familiarisen_US
dc.subjectabundanceen_US
dc.subjectmark-resighten_US
dc.titleUsing natural marks to estimate free-ranging dog Canis familiaris abundance in a MARK-RESIGHT framework in suburban Mumbai, Indiaen_US
dc.title.alternativeUsing natural marks to estimate free-ranging dog Canis familiaris abundance in a MARK-RESIGHT framework in suburban Mumbai, Indiaen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2012 The Authorsen_US
dc.source.pagenumber510-520en_US
dc.source.volume5en_US
dc.source.journalTropical Conservation Scienceen_US
dc.source.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/194008291200500408
dc.identifier.cristin1019951
cristin.unitcode7511,2,0,0
cristin.unitnameAvdeling for terrestrisk økologi
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