Predicting gray wolf landscape recolonization: Logistic regression models vs. new field data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Mladenoff, David J ^a   Sickley, Theodore A ^a   Wydeven, Adrian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Conservation biology; Endangered species; Gray wolf; Great Lakes Region; Habitat suitability; Landscape ecology; Logistic regression; Recolonization; Source sink; Species recovery

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MODELING; RECOLONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 0033081167     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0037:PGWLRL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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