Modeling disjunct gray wolf populations in semi-wild landscapes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 879-888

  Haight, Robert G ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^b   Wydeven, Adrian P ^c  

^a NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 0031824480     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.97103.x     Document Type: Article

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