Causes of mortality in reintroduced Eurasian lynx in Switzerland

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 84-92

  Schmidt Posthaus, Heike ^a   Breitenmoser Würsten, Christine ^b   Posthaus, Horst ^a   Bacciarini, Luca ^a   Breitenmoser, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KORA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infectious disease; Lynx lynx; Mortality; Noninfectious mortality causes; Reintroduced population

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

ACCIDENT; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; WILD ANIMAL;

ACCIDENTS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CARNIVORA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0039489962     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.1.84     Document Type: Article

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