In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional,
national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring …

Population census size (NC) and effective population sizes (N e) are two crucial parameters
that influence population viability, wildlife management decisions, and conservation …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

Carnivores are difficult to survey due, in large part, to their relative rarity across the
landscape and wariness toward humans. Several noninvasive methods may aid in …

Degraded DNA from suboptimal field sampling is common in molecular ecology. However,
its impact on techniques that use restriction site associated next‐generation DNA …

DNA metabarcoding of food in animal scats provides a non‐invasive dietary analysis
method for vertebrates. A variety of molecular approaches can be used to recover dietary …

There is often a conservation need to estimate population abundances of elusive, low-
density, wide-ranging carnivore species. Because of logistical constraints, investigators …

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Estimating population size of elusive and rare species is challenging. The difficulties in
catching such species has triggered the use of samples collected noninvasively, such as …