Potential range and corridors for brown bears in the Eastern Alps, Italy

Ursus

Volumn 11, Issue , 1999, Pages 123-130

  Boitani, Luigi ^a   Ciucci, Paolo ^a   Corsi, Fabio ^b   Dupre, Eugenio ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Ecologia Applicata   (Italy)

^c Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Brown bear; Geographic information system; GIS; Habitat suitability; Italy; Mahalanobis statistic; Potential distribution; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037924440     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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