Integrating systematic and targeted scat collection approaches to estimate the abundance of a culturally significant threatened species on Indigenous lands

• Published in: Conservation science and practice Vol. 7; no. 5
• Main Authors: Geyle, Hayley M., Herbert, Myra, Doolan, Laura, Rangers, North Tanami, Banks, Sam, Dickman, Chris R., Dixon, Kelly M., Robinson, Catherine J., Schlesinger, Christine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.05.2025; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Abundance; Animals; Capture-recapture studies; Collaborative work; cross‐cultural collaboration; Data collection; density; Ecologists; Ecology; Estimates; greater bilby; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous species; Knowledge; Macrotis lagotis; Native peoples; non‐invasive genetic sampling; Population; Remote regions; Sampling; scat; spatially explicit capture‐recapture; Species extinction; Surveys; Threatened species; Trends; Australia

Estimating the abundance of threatened species can be extremely difficult. This is particularly true in remote regions, where surveys are often expensive and subject to logistical challenges. Where threatened species occur on Indigenous lands, collaborative work between Indigenous people and ecologi...