Predicting the distribution of Eurasian badger (Meles meles) setts over an urbanized landscape: A GIS approach

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 423-428

  Wright, Amanda ^a   Fielding, Alan H ^a   Wheater, C Philip ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

MELES MELES;

EID: 0034076002     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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