Comparison of Drive Counts and Mark-Resight As Methods of Population Size Estimation of Highly Dense Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) Populations

• Kazutaka Takeshita ,

  * E-mail: kazutaka.takeshita.0716@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Ikeda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Ikeda, Hiroshi Takahashi, Koichi Kaji

  Current address: Course in Animal Ecology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Takahashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Ikeda, Hiroshi Takahashi, Koichi Kaji

  Affiliation Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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• Tsuyoshi Yoshida ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Symbiotic Science, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Hiromasa Igota ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Symbiotic Science, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Yukiko Matsuura ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Koichi Kaji

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Ikeda, Hiroshi Takahashi, Koichi Kaji

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

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