Demographic factors contributing to high raccoon densities in urban landscapes

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 324-333

  Prange, Suzanne ^a,c   Gehrt, Stanley D ^b   Wiggers, Ernie P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Nemours Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Density; Illinois; Procyon lotor; Raccoon; Radiotelemetry; Reproduction; Site fidelity; Suburban; Survival; Trap recapture; Urban

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; REPRODUCTION; SITE FIDELITY; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

CANIDAE; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 0038371196     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802774     Document Type: Article

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