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2014

Journal article

Detecting the elusive Scottish wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris using camera trapping

Population monitoring is important for conservation management but difficult to achieve for rare, cryptic species. Reliable information about the Critically Endangered Scottish wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris is lacking because of difficulties in morphological and genetic identification, resulting from extensive hybridization with feral domestic cats Felis catus. We carried out camera-trap...

Kilshaw, Kerry ; Johnson, Paul J ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Macdonald, David W
Scotland, Scottish wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris, spatially explicit capture–recapture, Camera trapping, and monitoring