Body size, niche breadth, and ecologically scaled responses to habitat fragmentation: Mammalian predators in an agricultural landscape

Biological Conservation

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 283-295

  Gehring, Thomas M ^b   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Body size; Conservation; GIS; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape; Mesopredators; Models; Niche breadth; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BODY SIZE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NICHE BREADTH; PREDATION;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS; CARNIVORA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA FRENATA; MUSTELINAE; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0037289859     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00156-8     Document Type: Article

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