Counting elusive animals: Comparing field and genetic census of the entire mountain gorilla population of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

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Assessing the performance of a semi‐automated acoustic monitoring system for primates (2015, background): “On the other hand, traditional survey methods are also subject to the risk of false-positive and false-negative detections (Miller et al. 2012), but this is usually not accounted for statistically, although it can considerably bias results (Guschanski et al. 2009).”
Genetic census reveals increased but uneven growth of a critically endangered mountain gorilla population (2013, methodology): “Starting with the 2003 census, assessment of whether groups contain more than one silverback as well as counts of individuals of specific age classes such as immature have been limited to habituated groups due to inaccuracies obtaining such information from nest site data alone (Guschanski et al., 2”
Estimation of census and effective population sizes: the increasing usefulness of DNA-based approaches (2010, background): “%) from traditional CMR data or previous perceptions (Kendall et al. 2009; Guschanski et al. 2009).”
Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes (2012, background): “We excluded localities for mountain gorillas as good estimates of this subspecies’ population size and geographic range are available covering several decades (Guschanski et al., 2009; Gray et al., 2010).”