Can camera trapping provide accurate estimates of small mammal (Myodes rutilus and Peromyscus maniculatus) density in the boreal forest?
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Laboratoire Chrono-environnement, UMR6294, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, La Bouloie UFR Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France (PV) Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada (CJK) Yukon Department of Environment, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6, Canada (TSJ) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada (RB)
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