Distance sampling effectively monitored a declining population of Italian roe deer <i>Capreolus capreolus italicus</i>. Focardi, S., Montanaro, P., Isotti, R., Ronchi, F., Scacco, M., & Calmanti, R. ORYX, 39(4):421–428, Faculty of Science, University of Rome 1, 2005. abstract bibtex Monitoring rare species of wild ungulates is critical for their conservation management. The Italian roe deer Capreolus capreolus italicus was recently confirmed to be a subspecies in Mediterranean habitats of central and southern Italy. We have monitored this subspecies at Castelporziano, near Rome, since 1988, and detected an abrupt population decline in 2001. We compared distance sampling surveys undertaken before and after the population crash to determine the ability of this method to detect variations in animal density and to investigate which factors may influence the precision of the estimates. We used radio tagged roe deer to evaluate the accuracy of our surveys, comparing distance sampling and mark-resight estimates at the same site, and studying the behavioural reaction of the animals to the presence of an observer. We found that before the crash distance sampling surveys attained a good precision but that the survey conditions influenced both precision and accuracy. Post-crash surveys were less precise, but the difference in density, before and after the crash was highly significant, indicating the potential of the method to quickly detect density variations and so to allow wildlife managers to react without delay to a crisis. The direct test of distance sampling assumptions showed that estimates were almost unbiased. We conclude that the methodology was successful for monitoring this population and that it may be used in other situations where ungulates are rare and efficient monitoring must be attained with restricted budgets. © 2005 FFI.
@ARTICLE{Focardi2005,
author = {Focardi, S. and Montanaro, P. and Isotti, R. and Ronchi, F. and Scacco,
M. and Calmanti, R.},
title = {Distance sampling effectively monitored a declining population of
{I}talian roe deer \textit{Capreolus capreolus italicus}},
journal = {ORYX},
year = {2005},
volume = {39},
pages = {421--428},
number = {4},
abstract = {Monitoring rare species of wild ungulates is critical for their conservation
management. The Italian roe deer \textit{Capreolus capreolus italicus}
was recently confirmed to be a subspecies in Mediterranean habitats
of central and southern Italy. We have monitored this subspecies
at Castelporziano, near Rome, since 1988, and detected an abrupt
population decline in 2001. We compared distance sampling surveys
undertaken before and after the population crash to determine the
ability of this method to detect variations in animal density and
to investigate which factors may influence the precision of the estimates.
We used radio tagged roe deer to evaluate the accuracy of our surveys,
comparing distance sampling and mark-resight estimates at the same
site, and studying the behavioural reaction of the animals to the
presence of an observer. We found that before the crash distance
sampling surveys attained a good precision but that the survey conditions
influenced both precision and accuracy. Post-crash surveys were less
precise, but the difference in density, before and after the crash
was highly significant, indicating the potential of the method to
quickly detect density variations and so to allow wildlife managers
to react without delay to a crisis. The direct test of distance sampling
assumptions showed that estimates were almost unbiased. We conclude
that the methodology was successful for monitoring this population
and that it may be used in other situations where ungulates are rare
and efficient monitoring must be attained with restricted budgets.
© 2005 FFI.},
address = {Faculty of Science, University of Rome 1},
keywords = {Capreolus capreolus italicus, Distance sampling, Italy, Mark-resight,
Mediterranean, Population monitoring, Roe deer},
owner = {eric},
subdatabase = {distance},
timestamp = {2006.11.05}
}
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