Winter habitat use of american martens Martes americana within second-growth forest in Ontario, Canada

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-105

  Bowman, Jeffrey C ^a,b   Robitaille, Jean François ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminant function analysis; Habitat model; Marten; Martes americana; Second growth forest; Snow tracking; Winter

Indexed keywords

ABIES; MARTES AMERICANA; MUSTELINAE; PICEA;

EID: 0030804476     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1997.012     Document Type: Article

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