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| Maffei, L.; Cuellar, E.; Noss, A. | |
| Estimating jaguar populations using camera traps: an example in Bolivia | |
| 2011 Book Chapter | |
This paper reports on efforts to camera trap jaguars in the dry forests of the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park in Bolivia. The authors adapted systematic methodologies first developed to survey tigers in India, based on individually distinctive pelage patterns. Abundance was estimated using capture-recapture statistical analysis, and a sample area defined based on the maximum distance that individual jaguars move during the sample period. The methodology has proved successful for jaguars in dry Chaco forest: population densities of 1/30-45 km2 and 1/20 km2 are estimated in the two most extensive landscape systems of Kaa-Iya._ _ |
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