Scaling population density and spatial pattern for terrestrial, mammalian carnivores

Oecologia

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-335

  Smallwood, K Shawn ^a,c   Schonewald, Christine ^b  

^a Inst for Sustainable Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Ecology; Population density; Scale; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; SPATIAL PATTERN;

CARNIVORA;

EID: 0029667658     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328735     Document Type: Article

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