Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
About the Editors
Part I: Literature Reviews
Chapter 1: Neotropical Mammals and the Analysis of Occupancy and Abundance
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Hierarchical Model Approach for the Analysis of Occupancy and Abundance
1.3 A Key Aspect: The Probability of Detection
1.4 Aims of This Volume
1.5 Book Organization
References
Chapter 2: Small Wild Felids of South America: A Review of Studies, Conservation Threats, and Research Needs
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methods
2.3 Results
2.4 Discussion

2.4.1 Herpailurus yagouaroundi
2.4.2 Leopardus geoffroyi
2.4.3 Leopardus guttulus
2.4.4 Leopardus tigrinus
2.4.5 Leopardus guigna
2.4.6 Leopardus jacobita
2.4.7 Leopardus pardalis
2.4.8 Leopardus colocolo
2.4.9 Leopardus wiedii
2.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Patterns of Occupancy and Density of the Small Felids of Tropical America
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methods
3.2.1 Study Area
3.2.2 Literature Review
3.3 Single-Season Occupancy Models
3.3.1 Mesoamerica
3.3.2 The Andes
3.3.3 Brazilian Drylands (Caatinga and Cerrado)

3.3.4 Atlantic Forest
3.4 Multiseason Occupancy Models
3.5 Co-occurrence Models
3.6 Density
3.6.1 Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture Models
3.6.2 Cormack-Jolly-Seber Model
3.7 Abundance Hierarchical Models
3.8 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Tales from Southern Brazil: Hierarchical Modeling of Occupancy, Abundance, and Density of Atlantic Forest and Pampa...
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Modeling Species Occupancy in Response to Landscape Structure in Armadillos and Bats
4.2.1 Site Occupancy by Armadillos in the Southern Atlantic Forest and the Uruguayan Savanna

4.2.2 Occupancy by Aerial Insectivorous Bats in the Brazilian-Uruguayan Savanna Evaluated Through Acoustic Detection
4.3 Defaunation in the Southern Limit of the Atlantic Forest: Abundance Modeling for Carnivorans of Different Sizes
4.4 Counting Cats: Factors Affecting Population Densities of Small Neotropical Felids
4.4.1 Density and Space Use by Geoffroyś Cats in a Human-Dominated Pampean Landscape
4.4.2 Margayś Persistence in Atlantic Forest Remnants
4.4.3 Ocelots on the Edge
4.4.4 Comparing Felid Densities in Rio Grande do Sul
4.5 Conclusion
References

Chapter 5: Modeling the Abundance and Spatial Distribution of the Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia: A Review and Future Pe...
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Modeling Guanaco Abundance and Distribution
5.2.1 Distance Sampling
5.2.2 Species-Habitat Use Models Based on Presence/Absence Data
5.2.2.1 Generalized Additive Models
5.2.2.2 Resource Selection Functions
5.2.2.3 Occupancy Models
5.2.3 Spatially Explicit Habitat Models Based on Abundance Data Corrected for Imperfect Detection: Density Surface Models
5.3 Methodological Aspects of the Modeling Tools Used on Guanacos