Carnivores as focal species for conservation planning in the rocky mountain region

Ecological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 961-980

  Carroll, Carlos ^a   Noss, Reed F ^b   Paquet, Paul C ^c  

^a Klamath Center for Conservation Research   (United States)

^b Conservation Science Inc ^*  (United States)

^c World Wildlife Fund Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Conservation plans; Fisher; Focal species; Grizzly bear; Habitat models; Landscape ecology; Lynx; Resource selection functions; Rocky Mountains; Spatial analysis; Wolverine

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT QUALITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

GULO GULO; LYNX CANADENSIS; MARTES PENNANTI; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0034909624     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0961:CAFSFC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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