Title
Review of Jaguar Survey and Monitoring Techniques and Methodologies
Author(s)
John Polisar, Tim G. O’Brien, Sean M. Matthews, Jon P. Beckmann, Eric W. Sanderson, Octavio Cesar Rosas-Rosas, and Carlos A. López-González
Published
2014
Abstract
Jaguars (Panthera onca L.) have lived in the America’s for more than 2 million years, but thousands of years of range expansion were reversed in the last few hundred years, particularly on the northern margin of their range. The USFWS contracted the Wildlife Conservation Society to: 1) conduct a literature review of jaguar survey and monitoring techniques and methodologies; and 2) draft a jaguar survey and monitoring protocol for application in the NRU, and with relevance for monitoring the species range wide. In this first half of the task, we present the basics of jaguar monitoring. A monitoring program for jaguars and other large cats may have a number of objectives, with the most obvious and important being changes in area (range/habitat) occupied, and changes in abundance (numbers). Herein, we review literature pertinent to surveys and monitoring in general, and to jaguars in particular, addressing the conceptual and statistical frameworks for the most commonly applied survey and monitoring designs used by biologists and statisticians (this document).
Keywords
Jaguar
Full Citation
John Polisar, Tim G. O’Brien, Sean M. Matthews, Jon P. Beckmann, Eric W. Sanderson, Octavio Cesar Rosas-Rosas, and Carlos A. López-González. 2014. Review of Jaguar Survey and Monitoring Techniques and Methodologies A Submission to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Partial Fulfillment of Contract F13PX01563, submitted 27 March 2014. 135 pp.
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