Population genetic data underpin many studies of behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary
processes in wild populations and contribute to effective conservation management …

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

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 …

False positive errors are a significant component of many ecological data sets, which in
combination with false negative errors, can lead to severe biases in conclusions about …

The main goal of non‐invasive genetic capture‐mark‐recapture (CMR) analysis is to gain an
unbiased and reliable population size estimate of species that cannot be sampled directly …

Non-invasive genetic techniques utilising DNA extracted from faeces hold great promise for
felid conservation research. These methods can be used to establish species distributions …

Recently introduced unmarked spatial capture–recapture (SCR), spatial mark–resight
(SMR), and 2‐flank spatial partial identity models (SPIMs) extend the domain of SCR to …

Sampling DNA noninvasively has advantages for identifying animals for uses such as mark–
recapture modeling that require unique identification of animals in samples. Although it is …

Noninvasive sampling, of faeces and hair for example, has enabled many genetic studies of
wildlife populations. However, two prevailing problems common to these studies are small …

Abstract Background The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a critically endangered
species endemic to China. Microsatellites have been preferred as the most popular …