Landscape analysis of jaguar (Panthera onca) habitat using sighting records in the Sierra de Tamaulipas, Mexico

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 257-269

  Ortega Huerta, Miguel A ^a   Medley, Kimberly E ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Geographic information systems (GIS); Landscape ecology; North America; Remote sensing; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURE CONSERVATION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE;

MEXICO;

PANTHERA ONCA;

EID: 0033368699     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892999000387     Document Type: Article

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